painkiller
Example Sentences
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“Yeah, but there’s nothing in the first aid kit that’s going to fix a tooth. I could use a painkiller, but that’s the least of our worries.”
From Literature
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He previously wrote about Samsung from Seoul, but in prior stints at the Journal's New York, Atlanta and Chicago offices, he covered Wall Street's biggest buyers, painkiller addiction, airlines and food.
The sector employs well over a million people and provides the ingredients for all the stuff of modern life, from polyethylene packaging to phenol for painkillers.
"It hurt very much and I had to take many painkillers," she says.
From BBC
The idea that a humble painkiller could help prevent cancer is both exciting and provocative.
From Science Daily
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