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
It’s in service of crank conspiracy theories, quack wellness influencers and weird dystopian visions of supermen doing pull-ups to demonstrate their patriotism.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Each of the three species create very different noises: humpbacks sing complex songs, minkes quack like ducks, and sei whales create low frequency booms.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 21, 2024
He called Rush a quack and a murderer, and even suggested the doctor was mentally unstable.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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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