medicate
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Adrian Aceves, a physician living in downtown Washington, said he'd be staying in with his five-year-old mutt Rosy, "trying to distract her with treats and toys, and I will medicate her."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Scott-Wright suggested placing him to sleep on his front, says Emily, and that she should medicate her son for reflux - despite Scott-Wright not seeing the baby during the consultation.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Unfortunately, alpha-synuclein has proven an especially challenging protein to medicate due to its unruly, disorganized form and lack of clear druggable structures, Disney added.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
But even after getting a diagnosis, Hutchings says the response was to "medicate someone, put them in the corner, and hope they get 'better.'"
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023
When they said I was depressed, she refused to let them medicate me.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Distracted by the recent death of his wife — whose loss he medicates by reading his sappy scribblings aloud to a rapt writing group — Sanders seems drained and becalmed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Products passing through the giant site range from insulin capsules and lifestyle drugs to medicated sunblock and drums of sulphuric acid.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
It’s a medicated but functioning limbo that Peet, in one of her best roles, conveys without the slightest trace of pity but with a coursing, wryly emotional intelligence that always reveals the sadness fueling it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
He was medicated not to treat the underlying psychiatric condition, his mother said, but to keep him calm in school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
This is Wells’ first IUD, so she can’t compare a medicated insertion to an unmedicated one.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2025
Throwing down an absurd card only works when you’re ironic, not medicated.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Earlier this year, England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty said it would be a "societal failure" if medicating people for life was our only answer to obesity.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
There was a stigma associated with ADHD—such as that students who had it weren’t very bright—and they didn’t like the idea of medicating their children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
In 2018, a federal judge found that forcibly medicating children without the permission of their parents violated child welfare laws.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
This stands in stark contrast with medicating symptoms of mood disorders or using behavioral tools to change thinking and behaviors.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2022
What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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