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vial

[vahy-uhl, vahyl] / ˈvaɪ əl, vaɪl /
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“We’ve worked cases where the vial is just tap water and mold and nothing more.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But every vial of insulin or GLP-1 medication on a pharmacist’s shelf is the product of decades of clinical trials and safety testing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

Quickly, before anyone comes in to question me, I pipette stasis gel in each vial.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Apothecary Pharma, a compounding pharmacy, voluntarily recalled 22 vials of Tirzepatide injections last month due to a “lack of assurance of sterility,” according to the official announcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

From October 2025 to the end of August, there were more than 2,400 seizures of noncompliant or fraudulent products, involving more than 130,000 vials, according to the CBP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

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

The vials and collection tools would’ve intimidated me before the hundreds of years of downloads.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

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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