How to Use remission in a Sentence

remission

noun
  • The patient is in remission.
  • He was given remission for good behavior.
  • The others have been in remission for five to 12 months.
    WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The tough teen withstood the chemo treatments and is in remission.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, 29% were considered to be in remission at week three, the study found.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The mice went into remission and survived long enough to be put down for old age.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Around the time that Stevie went into remission, his mother asked the Misslers to adopt him.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • None of the other 50 dogs in the trial stayed in remission nearly as long as Jellybean.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • At this stage, Bryson and her colleagues consider the woman in a state of HIV remission.
    NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For some types of blood cancer, the therapy leads to remission in more than half of patients.
    Debby Waldman, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The two drugs enabled him to go into remission before the stem cell transplant could take place.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The woman has also been in remission from cancer for 4½ years now.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
  • While the 25 mg group showed some remission from depression at three weeks, the results were not sustained at 12 weeks.
    CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • By 2017, Lou is in remission and their team is headed to the Super Bowl, which sparks the plan — not nearly as wild or crazy as the film presumes — for the four of them to attend.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That’s followed by a period of remission with no symptoms that can last for months and even years, the Mayo Clinic says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Sharon Coppola, who couldn’t make the reunion, had breast cancer, too, and is in remission.
    Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • After five years of remission, Alyssa now has been cancer-free for nearly five years.
    Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Those who were able to lose 15 percent of their body weight in that study had 86 percent diabetes remission.
    WIRED, 12 June 2023
  • Following treatment in May 2016, she was told her cancer was in remission and returned to the court.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • With each new therapy his doctors tried, the cancer would surge out of remission within weeks — striking the bones in his back and legs.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 2 June 2022
  • The cancer, in remission for seven years, had returned.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
  • The two remain in remission more than 10 years after the infusion, the researchers noted.
    Jacqueline Howard and Carma Hassan, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Doctors had given Naomi three years to live, but in 1995 her disease was in full remission.
    New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • After months of treatment, Gray was declared in remission on May 6, but her journey was still far from over.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Fratzke said Jeremiah was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 23 and is now in remission.
    Lisa Song, ProPublica, 29 June 2022
  • Retreats are open for adult men, ages 21 and older in any stage of treatment, recovery or in full remission.
    Bill May, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Here are some tips to consider when balancing your health and your workplace, even if your IBD is in remission right now.
    Elizabeth Millard, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Jane Fonda, the actress and activist whose career spans back to the 1960s, announced Thursday that her cancer is in remission.
    Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Even in apparent absence, the violence lurks; the threat looms always in our minds, like a cancer in remission.
    Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • The daily oral pill can reduce inflammation in the gut and help patients reach remission.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023

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