as in medicine
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
the museum has an exhibit on some of the strange physics that were once used to cure disease
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for physic
Noun
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Science magazine described the medicine the most important scientific advance of 2024. Already a subscriber?—
Jorge Garay,
Wired News,
20 June 2025 -
The positive result, which the player blamed on accidentally ingesting some of his son’s cough medicine, only became apparent once Gomez had left Sevilla and joined Monza in 2023.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Why Specialty Clinics Feel The Pain First Specialty clinics face a perfect storm of challenges: high-cost drugs, evolving payer policies and thousands of diagnosis and procedure codes that need to match up precisely.—
Sally Ragab,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Several personal assistants were tasked with setting up the red lights and candles, delivering baby oil, and sometimes picking up and delivering drugs and thousands of dollars in cash for freak-offs.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Some benefit from meal planning or working with a dietitian who understands GLP-1 medications.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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Your healthcare provider may recommend over-the-counter pain medication to help relieve COVID muscle aches.—
Sarah Hudgens,
Health,
15 June 2025
Verb
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It’s cleverly done, with the audience treated to a young Ollie Rathbone weaving in and out of an opposition defence to score with a thumping finish in junior football just moments before being shown doing exactly the same to break the deadlock after 15 minutes.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The lawsuit has the potential to shape how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.—
Lauren Goode,
Wired News,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Former President Joe Biden's DOJ, riding a wave of anti-corporatism on the left, proposed a far-reaching set of remedies that strayed well beyond the original case.—
Dan Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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If Google’s Ai Mode Succeeds? One possible remedy for content providers — which The Atlantic highlights — is to maintain direct access to their content consumers.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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There is currently no cure for the disease, per The Mayo Clinic.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
23 June 2025
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There is no cure for this disease, so dispose of these plants before the beetles can feed further and spread the bacteria to other plants.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
23 June 2025
Verb
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In addition to eating solid food, the pups were likely still nursing milk from their mother, according to the researchers.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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Verstappen was nursing his tires — but remained on the racing line — as Russell was approaching fast behind.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
14 June 2025
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Trending Stories On Wednesday morning, a forensic video expert told jurors that the infamous hotel surveillance video showing Combs slamming Ventura to the ground and kicking and dragging her in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in 2016 was not manually doctored.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2025
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What To Know Within hours, the video sparked a wide-ranging discussion on social media questioning whether the video was genuine, speculating that it had been generated or doctored with AI, particularly the new cutting-edge AI video tool released by Google last week.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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“Physic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physic. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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