medicate

Example Sentences

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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

“As a society, we medicate stress, we medicate pain, we medicate sleep, we medicate everything,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023

In Huxley’s novel, people are addicted to entertainment and medicate themselves with the fictional drug “soma.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

“I’m angry! Why can’t you let me be angry? Why do you have to medicate away everything I feel?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman