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medicine

[med-uh-sin, med-suhn] / ˈmɛd ə sɪn, ˈmɛd sən /


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She found that Oz had a gift for explaining preventive medicine to ordinary people.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The right one is being answered in science, medicine and everyday work: Will AI make our lives better?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"Therapeutic resistance is a main obstacle to achieve effective and durable cancer treatments," said corresponding author Dr. Weei-Chin Lin, professor of medicine - hematology and oncology and of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

She is a volunteer who is involved in attempts to deliver food and medicine and facilitating evacuations to Oleshky.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Have you seen an eighty-four-year-old man—white hair, a long beard? Casper ten Boom! You must have taken medicine to him!”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Big pharma companies increasingly view AI as a tool to enable identification of targets for new drugs, design new medicines and develop them, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Enveda, a privately held AI biotechnology startup, has doubled its valuation to about $2 billion as momentum builds behind tech-driven approaches to discovering new medicines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"People get freshers flu or colds all the time in first year, so I got two medicines," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Riley Lubas, 20, came down with a bad cold in March 2025 in his first year at university, and took two over-the counter medicines without realising they both contained paracetamol.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

There were other hospitals in the region, but none was as well equipped or well managed, and each charged patients for medicines and supplies.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

I question whether reading Seneca, or Epictetus, or any moral or philosophic writer, living or dead, would have as effectually medicined my mind.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

He followed in her wake without her knowing it, and made for his own lodging where he dressed his wounds and medicined himself till he was whole.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

But the slave-girl medicined herself and became well; and she kept what remained of the poison and sold it to those who asked for it.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

"Fill high the bowl, benumb His aching sense With medicined sleep."—O awful in Thy woe!

From The Christian Year by John Keble

Each boat that puts to sea has been medicined with care, many incantations and other magic observances having been had recourse to, in obedience to the rules which the superstitious people have followed for ages.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Sir Hugh Charles Clifford

A great great sin plots in the house this day; Too strong for the faithful, beyond medicining … And help stands far away.

From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray

As the night struggles slowly into day so sickness climbs stealthily into health, and nature has a system of medicining her ailments which might only be thwarted by the ministrations of a mere doctor.

From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum

And she Shall know no more its tender, sweet caress, Soft medicining woe.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

Certainly, now you see that all your Doctoring and medicining hath been to some purpose, and now you feel also that all herbs were made for some good effects.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey




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