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Such mental-health assessments are standard procedure in murder cases. — Washington Post, "Man accused in New Zealand mosque killings pleads not guilty," 14 June 2019 But as Don sat at the hospital, expecting to take his wife home after recovery from what Duntsch had said would be a 45-minute procedure, his wait stretched to hours. — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, "How ‘Dr. Death’ Left a Trail of Horror Across Texas Hospitals, Leaving 33 Patients Maimed or Dead," 13 June 2019 Maricopa County's Animal Care and Control facility in Mesa extended its quarantine procedures for one more week, according to Jose Miguel Santiago, a facility spokesman. — Molly Hudson, azcentral, "Maricopa County animal facility in Mesa extends quarantine another week," 13 June 2019 In almost all cases, cataract surgery is an outpatient procedure that takes around 20 minutes. — Amir Khan, sun-sentinel.com, "Surgery to treat cataract can wait if vision hasn’t been affected yet," 6 June 2019 Nobody had done this before, because this had never happened, and our procedures became the model for what to do if one of these diseases really comes. — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, "Meet the scientist who took on the first Ebola scare in the U.S.," 2 May 2019 Kolmogorov asserted that there was no general procedure for doing multiplication that required fewer than n2 steps. — Quanta Magazine, "Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply," 11 Apr. 2019 An art exhibit coming to Philly this week will stir up a decades-old debate: Infant male circumcision is a procedure many take for granted. — Ray Boyd, https://www.inquirer.com, "Summer Arts Guide; Philly World War II veteran finally gets justice | Morning Newsletter," 5 June 2019 The filing is a routine procedure that is used to protect interests in performance of contractual obligations, Cain said in an email to the Free Press. — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, "GM, FCA strike a deal with Tesla that consumers subsidize," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'procedure.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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