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gurney

[gur-nee] / ˈgɜr ni /


NOUN
stretcher
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Corinna Barrett Lain: So when you think of the obfuscation, you know, you might want to ask yourself: Why are they on a gurney?

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

An hour later, on a gurney in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai, I waited to be admitted overnight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Kahlo depicts two sides of herself in the masterpiece—one lying bloody on a gurney after a surgery and the other sitting up, triumphant in a red, traditional dress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

His phone rings during a moment of silence for a deceased patient and he injures his finger moving a patient off a gurney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

The nurse shook her head, and when someone else arrived with the gurney, Arturo laid Maribel down on it.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

An AFP reporter at the scene witnessed people being carried out of the wreckage on gurneys and loaded into waiting ambulances as hundreds of bystanders looked on, some seemingly in shock.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Background actors who fill the overcrowded waiting room or lie on gurneys waiting for treatment have medical journeys organized by the show’s production team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

They see and treat heart attacks and strokes, or don’t see them, learning that sometimes the people they think are fine to leave waiting on gurneys aren’t.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

That leads to a spillover into the corridors, with patients in wheelchairs, on hospital beds and gurneys filling all the available space.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

People were fashioning makeshift gurneys from baby carriages and trunks nailed to roller skates, pulling them themselves.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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