Example Sentences

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Surgeons around the country say ever-younger patients are taking measures to mitigate their breast cancer risk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Surgeons removed her talus bone, which forms part of the ankle joint, after she developed an infection that prevented doctors from using metal implants.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Surgeons Alan Goldman and Martin Elliott were among those searching for answers when they met in a break room at the hospital where, fortuitously, a Formula One race was on the television.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Andrew Marks is also the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, a professor of biomedical engineering, and director of the Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology.

From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026

In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson