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gurney

[gur-nee] / ˈgɜr ni /


NOUN
stretcher
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Some 24 hours later, she was handcuffed to a gurney and taken to a psychiatric hospital.

From BBC Aug. 19, 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

Styles channels Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby, marching toward an incoming patient on a gurney as she’s pushed through the ER hallway.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2026

There, lying on a gurney was the very woman who had selected Dr Bhargava to head the hospital - Indira Gandhi.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2025

The doors slid open for us, and the steady bustle of the city streets gave way to the squeak of gurney wheels and the impatient chattering of waiting people.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

The new season doesn’t ease up on its episodic biopsies of bad policy results piling up on the gurneys lining the trauma center’s walls.

From Salon Jan. 8, 2026

He said sometimes bodies were left on gurneys in the hallways outside of the morgue covered with nothing more than a bedsheet.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 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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