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convalesce

[kon-vuh-les] / ˌkɒn vəˈlɛs /


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Her sister traveled from out of state to help, and once my friend can travel, she will convalesce with her family in another state.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

To convalesce, they stay in this compound, and exercise by walking around its well-ordered clusters of three-story buildings and a synthetic turf avenue with a playground and soccer field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Catherine will be hospitalized for 10 to 14 days, according to the couple’s office in Kensington Palace, and will convalesce for two to three months after that.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

A volunteer with the group drove the bird to the Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware, where the owl continues to convalesce and regain the strength to fly regularly.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Because of an administrative bungle, some soldiers were left to convalesce in the hospital.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

We’re doing this interview over Skype – me in London lockdown, he at his 78-year-old mother’s house in the hills above Los Angeles: he’s looking after her while she convalesces from surgery.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020

As Farrell’s character convalesces, it becomes increasingly unclear whether he is manipulating his female caregivers or whether they are playing out their own power games through him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

The hospital in which Moose convalesces from his heart attack is “a department store for sadness”; his cough is “small, way short of a proper hack, a kind of diet cough.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016

Lundqvist is expected to miss at least two more weeks as he convalesces after a vascular injury to his neck.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015

By and by, when he wakes up and convalesces, he’ll ask shamefacedly whether he didn’t act and talk like an awful fool during his delirium.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

Their parents and grandparents convalesced there and sometimes died there, cared for by nurses who were part of the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

Sick and weighing only 70 pounds, he convalesced at a hospital, where he began painting scenes from Auschwitz, as well as landscapes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

Commonly, it’s been the other way around — the women brandishing a gold medal or World Cup crown while the men convalesced.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021

He painted it at the Saint-Paul asylum in southern France, where he convalesced.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2020

For five years now she had convalesced in confinement, but she still had not healed.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Seven medical professionals have been on trial since April over Maradona's death in 2020 while convalescing after surgery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Robert Dickman, for one, was convalescing at a hospital in Queens.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

He handed out plush toys to convalescing children at a medical trauma center.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

They take Mom’s Prius, since Dad’s car is still convalescing in the garage.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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