physic
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A spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey and purveyor of physic memorabilia online, Williamson spent about a year seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Lord Sands in “Henry VIII”: ’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases are grown so catching.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Greenall’s Berkeley Square London Dry Gin summons, for him, “the atmosphere of an English physic garden in summer.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2012
Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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"To figure out and eventually predict space weather, we want to understand the physics of the Sun, all the way down to the smallest scales."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The UKRI, which has an annual budget of about £10bn, said it has had to cut the observatory's annual £2.8m budget because planned research costs for physics and the running of its labs had escalated.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Climate models are computer simulations that use the laws of physics to estimate how the atmosphere, oceans, ice, and land respond to greenhouse gases and other influences.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Think of this as a new physics that is being demonstrated on a quantum computer where classical methods fail,” Gambetta said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
So the physics of music is the physics of the kinds of sounds these instruments can make.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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It fell away all at once, though no change was made in the diet; and yet we learn it has been physicked.
From The Dog by Dinks
If a bullet was extracted, a gun repaired, an old sultan physicked, or the split lobe of an ear mended, a cow or cows were at hand to be paid when the task was finished.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Being a capable needlewoman she soon had them apparelled more to her liking, and the labour physicked pain.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice
Queen Elizabeth, and the ruin of his invincible fleet, physicked his frenzy into health, and taught him to fear and respect that country which he thought he could have made a province of Spain.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
"No, we've had the 'lark,' and must now be physicked."
From Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark by Bruce, Charles
The popular treatment, which comprehends blood-letting, physicking, and the use of powerful diuretics, has proved notoriously unsuccessful.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Besides, the dog was a good creature, and deserved a good physicking; he did indeed.
From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie
In the intervals of political business she occupied herself with superintending her building and gardening operations, physicking the sick, and tyrannising over her numerous servants.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George
Now, physicking off generally weakens us, instead of giving strength.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Talk's a brew Mischievous, heady, easy raised, whose sting Is ill to bear, and not by physicking Voided.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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