patient
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In the Netherlands, Radboud University Hospital said Friday it had admitted a patient with a "low suspicion" of Ebola and had put him in isolation pending the result of diagnostic tests.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Investors have so far been more patient with startups like SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, which have established track records of losing billions of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Doctors told him his heart had been in one of the worst conditions they had seen in a living patient and without surgery, he might have had only two weeks left.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
While investors have been patient with hot startup’s losses, their expectations for some public companies like Nvidia are rising.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
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