ambulate
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“I’m generally very cautious about starting a GLP-1 in my older adult patients who have functional impairments, like needing a walker to ambulate or needing assistance with transferring from a bed to a chair.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were ambulate, ambulette and mutable.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
The officer noted in her police report that Peterman was unarmed and used a walker to ambulate, the charges say.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“Scooting is the only way he could ambulate independently,” she explained.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2017
And maybe she could even ambulate his clothing and his boots and send him home, where he could wake up in the loving embrace of his family.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
When she gets ambulating with her walker, it is hard to keep up with her.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2019
There are people clomping along with one foot immobilized in a big plastic boot or ambulating with one leg bent at the knee and resting on a wheeled contraption.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2015
“He is ambulating independently on crutches and working hard with physical therapy toward a full recovery, which we anticipate will occur in several months’ time,” Burke said in a statement.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
"He is ambulating independently on crutches and working hard with physical therapy toward a full recovery, which we anticipate will occur in several months' time," Burke said in a statement.
From US News ● Jun. 12, 2015
Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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