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vial

[vahy-uhl, vahyl] / ˈvaɪ əl, vaɪl /
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So Reavie deputized a friend of a friend in D.C. to dip a vial into the green water and ship it to him overnight.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

Soon-Shiong also referred to Anktiva as a “single jab,” later adding that it was a “little vial that you inject subcutaneously.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

He went out looking for another vial of antivenom - as did her uncle.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Shalom rubbed the liquid, stored in a small vial, into my scalp with his gloved fingertips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

She pulled a small vial from her rucksack and poured two droplets of a clear, glittering substance onto one of its petals.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Between 2018 and 2020, he noted, the government approved roughly 5.8 million vials a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

He takes vials from his refrigerator of GHK-Cu, which he tells AFP will give him "beautiful skin", and Retatrutide, which will help him "feel less hungry".

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Food and Drug Administration, it was widely available online, often in vials marked “for research use only.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

This can include damage in transport, passing the expiration date, and unused doses from multi-dose vials, but a major factor are failures in the cold chain.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

A cloaked figure is hunched over a worktable filled with bubbling cauldrons, vials of neon-colored liquid, and candles dripping wax.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

But by the time the health agency ordered 500,000 doses worth to be vialed on June 10, other countries with outbreaks had submitted their own orders and the earliest delivery date was October.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

When the demand for vaccines became an outcry, though, the agency found the money to pay for five million more doses to be vialed.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

My vialed water samples are sitting in a tube rack.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Little pseudo-scorpions were very abundant, and I could have vialed hundreds.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

In fact, his ingenuous enthusiasm for this vialled virility seems for the moment to have swept him off his feet.

From Time Magazine Archive


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