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
According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery.
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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Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum physics to solve problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s best supercomputers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It's lovely to get involved with people in the community - it's all about introducing people to physics in a safe-ish environment," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
That result is especially important because such correlations cannot be explained by classical physics and instead provide evidence that genuine quantum entanglement was produced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Operating at room temperature makes the metacrystal relevant to technologies well beyond basic physics research.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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I knew lords, and physicked them, too, when I was a blundering allopathist.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
With despair in his heart he still wrote on, simply because the labour in which he had delight physicked the pains of impecuniosity.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
Being a capable needlewoman she soon had them apparelled more to her liking, and the labour physicked pain.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
“I say, Easy, we must both be physicked on the same day.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
She was well physicked, and on the third day was produced before my class and properly secured.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
But Victoria easily recovered from and forgot this preliminary and bad physicking, and was soon to be seen galloping on its road of progress as if nothing to its damage could ever have happened.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Last Monday he told me that more physicking was no good, and that I had better be off here, and see what exercise and the fresh air of the moors would do for me.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
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