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medicine

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


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"My first choice is to study medicine at Glasgow uni, and my insurance is pharmacy at Newcastle," she said.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

It may instead depend on persuading consumers that the food they eat, the medicine they take and the cosmetics they use were made according to rules they believe in.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

People in Iran said they are limiting spending to essentials such as food, petrol and medicine, dropping meat from their diets, and buying staples one item at a time as their wages lose value.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The herbs at the shop support Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, rainforest herbalism and American eclectic herbalism, Ayales says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

In medicine, a new generation of pacemaker could regulate a person’s heartbeat for decades, rather than needing to be replaced every two years.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The “high vibrational” herb shop offers “plant medicines for body, mind & wellness.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Sandoz Group is in talks with the U.S. government about manufacturing investments in the country and doesn’t see President Trump’s planned tariffs on generic medicines as a major threat, the drugmaker’s chief executive said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

The findings also confirmed that both medicines were safe to use during infancy.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

She told MarketWatch that Novo remains focused on innovative science and methods of getting medicines to people who need them.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

After a while, as they walked the trail, as the medicines grew heavy, she thought to ask: “Nokomis, do they talk to you?”

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

They are gathered together as patients in a hospital are gathered, that their sickness may be medicined and their wounds dressed.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

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

Would he allow me to wear out life with famine; or was the food administered to me to be medicined with death?

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Go thou thy way, sorrowful and suffering soul, alone; and if thy own heart bleeds, strive thou to soothe its pangs, by medicining the wounds and healing the hurts of another.

From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson

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

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

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




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