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nurse

[nurs] / nɜrs /






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I am a nurse, although I am not working at the moment because I earned “too much” last year and am concerned about how that might affect my Social Security benefits.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Retired oncology nurse Rosa Rivera-Ayala, part of the "Vote Safe" initiative, has stationed herself near a polling place in DeKalb County, which has a majority-Black population and a large number of naturalized American citizens.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

She said the health board's clinical strategy for oncology had led to "key developments", including nurse-led clinics and the introduction of colorectal and breast metastatic nurse specialist teams.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

But Kelly Whitworth, a nurse in Anchorage, wasn’t buying the confusion argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The nurse went silently to the door and opened it for us herself.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“We are standing with the powers that ought to be — the teachers and the nurses, the farmers and the ranchers, the grandmother who is facing eviction.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

A small group of these nurses were eventually allowed to treat Black soldiers in the US Army struck down by Spanish flu.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Earlier, attendants and nurses were seen as an addition to family caregivers.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Overall, the complaint paints a picture of a system sowing confusion and unease for nurses, teachers and other borrowers, many of whom have been working in public-service jobs and paying their loans for years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

And here at nursery school, probably all the children were learning to be nurses, and that meant—oh, no...

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

This misbegotten “romanticization of lunacy in popular culture,” Mr. deBoer says, is “one of many aggravations I have nursed for years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Even classical music listeners have their version in what may be the most legendary rivalry of all — the one that also-ran Italian composer Antonio Salieri supposedly nursed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

A dog that was rescued from what an inspector described as one of the "worst jobs" of her career has found a new home with the vet who nursed her back to health.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026

Most of them have nursed injuries over the past couple of seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

Maman and Auntie nursed me so well that with all the cuts I didn’t even get a fever.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

The charity's chief nursing officer Paul Edwards says it is "trying to fill the gaps" within stretched NHS services.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

She had a decade-long career in nursing and public policy and found new opportunities through referrals from friends, colleagues or through people she met at events where she spoke.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

"I am still nursing an internal wound in my eyes," he said, adding that he now experiences shortness of breath and constant headaches.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

You’d expect long faces nursing their drinks, but it’s often the opposite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

She kept a brave face inside the nursing home, but later I heard her sobbing in the parking lot.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas


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