quack
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“The Doctors’ Riot of 1788” centers on the New York incident but also tells the broader story of medicine in the early American republic, including quack cures and smallpox panics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
There are also medbed clinics, where people can pay to receive quack treatments from people who claim to have working medbeds.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025
And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Where Wayne’s Batman is lithe and graceful, The Penguin is awkward and rotund; while Wayne is charismatic, the Penguin is a weirdo, a quack.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
Yet it’s considered acceptable if it’s done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing quack
40 SAT words Beginning with "Q"
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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"Efrén Divided" by Ernesto Cisneros, Chapters 1–5
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