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
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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
She said she is furious that she is having to go through an early medicated menopause because there are too many people ahead of her on the surgical waiting list.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 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
But on the third night, after I’ve been medicated and the lights turned down low for bedtime, he slips silently into my room.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
As to what it is we’re medicating against — well, that’s the real story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
From Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot