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Under the method, executioners strap inmates to a gurney with chest and shoulder harnesses and attach a mask to his face.—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 10 June 2026 Paramedics rushed to Hart’s side, attempting to care for him for about 20 minutes in front of thousands of the arena’s spectators before removing him from the ring on a gurney — though Hart reportedly had died within minutes of the accident.—Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026 In one instance, an execution was called off after correctional officers had already strapped Glossip to a gurney and begun preparing to give him a lethal injection.—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026 The fan fell in the bottom of the third inning, but play wasn’t stopped until the top of the fourth when the man was removed on a gurney.—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for gurney
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Etymology
probably ultimately from Gurney cab type of horse-drawn cab with a rear entrance, from J. Theodore Gurney, who patented such a cab in Boston in 1883