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nurse

[nurs] / nɜrs /






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That crash claimed the lives of patient Catalina Romero, nurse Jessica Devries and pilot Steve Robinson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

This anatomical development helped make it possible to swallow while maintaining the ability to breathe, an essential adaptation for mammals that nurse their young.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

He will likely have his personal nurse Massimiliano Strappetti, who looked after Leo's predecessor Francis during several stays at the Gemelli hospital before his death last year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

She has started studying health and social care at college, with ambitions of becoming a nurse, having spent most of her life surrounded by medical staff.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

She seems like there’s a cool big sister hidden just under her nurse persona.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Physicians are barred by the American Medical Association’s ethics code from participating in executions; similar constraints apply to nurses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

In addition, all accredited centres must have named gynaecologists, specialist nurses, colorectal surgeons, urologists and radiologists with time dedicated in their rota for endometriosis care at least six times a year.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

They scheduled and attended appointments, helped coordinate transportation and childcare, communicated with doctors and nurses, and helped patients make sense of complicated medical information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

In the wake of Carruthers’ botched execution, a group of more than 40 doctors and nurses came down on the side of purity.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The ER nurses and doctors who see me say that I’m lucky.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

She nursed a swollen ankle after falling in the evacuation centre.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Eleanor Nash, community ranger at Forestry England, said beaver kits were nursed for about two to three months.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Even classical music listeners have their version in what may be the most legendary rivalry of all — the one that also-ran Italian composer Antonio Salieri supposedly nursed with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

While my mom nursed her post-prandial local beer, my kid and I went for a leisurely stroll through a nearby park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Siddhartha thought yearningly and bitterly about his son, nursed his love and feeling of tenderness for him, let the pain gnaw at him, underwent all the follies of love.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

He was inspired to do this after his own father-in-law, who had developed Alzheimer's, had to go into a nursing home.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

By supporting effective nursing, this adaptation provided an important survival advantage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Kessler, the Lakers’ big acquisition at center from the Utah Jazz, has been nursing a finger injury he sustained after hitting the backboard during practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He steers clear of healthcare providers or nursing homes catering to aging populations — “basically a fast-maturing and bad hedge to inflation” that won’t easily pass on rising costs to those residents.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Margie told me that she never met Hale, who died in 1962, in an Arizona nursing home.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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