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[treet] / trit /








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How you treat others lies within the human soul.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

A bisphosphonate, a type of bone-protecting medication already used to treat osteoporosis, prevented minerals from accumulating.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

It is, in part, a consideration of how historians could attempt to treat folkloric knowledge as equivalently valuable to documentary evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Some treat them as investments, never wearing their purchases in order to keep them in mint condition.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

A treat, she’d said, for my birthday, which was the holy week of Easter.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

To be successful in achieving Bessent’s objectives, the U.S. government will need a comprehensive framework for industrial policies that treats geoeconomics, AI and energy as intertwined domains, not as separate silos.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

"Adapt or fail" is Ambrositsch's stark conclusion, which has led her to plant different varieties more resistant to the heat, and to change how she treats the soil.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

"They each have a bowl of popcorn and treats and we move the sofas into two rows so it's like a cinema."

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Not ever pastor treats AI as a mere aid.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

He munches happily, then settles down to watch us, hoping for more treats.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Spinal fusion was also reduced when the fish received less food or were treated with drugs that suppressed fat metabolism.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Media coverage treated the report as the collective judgment of more than 8,400 members—each elected for a lifetime of distinguished achievement.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

SSG Landers said 25 spectators were treated for heat-related illnesses during the game.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

John Early, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, arrived at Carville in 1918, when patients were treated as prisoners and pariahs rather than people who needed medical care.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“A lot of people who are coming onto the pill are individuals that basically are increasingly interested about treating themselves with GLP-1s, but do not want an injection,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

With dinner already half-imagined, I could pass the tomatoes and melons without treating each one as an alternate future I might regret abandoning.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The hospital has also doubled up many of its single-occupancy hospital rooms, converted its gift shop to a procedure room and resorted to treating patients in what were once meditation and waiting rooms.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

For humans, the abundant minerals and anti-inflammatory properties of certain seaweeds have seen their extracts used in medicines from treating acid reflux to wound dressings.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Mrs. Smith had dropped us off and had gone to spend a few hours treating herself to “retail therapy” at the Fashion Square Mall.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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