as in ministering (to)
to attend to the needs and comforts of
volunteers administering to the terminally ill at a hospice
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The entrance to the Backrooms is discovered by Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who is living inside his low-budget furniture store after a brutal divorce, nursing a bitter resentment to how things have turned out.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026 -
While nursing a broken heart, Allie begins to notice Dean’s advances.—
Kenneal Patterson,
Vanity Fair,
29 May 2026
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They were encouraged to purchase pricey gemstones from him that were supposedly imbued with healing powers.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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Tazheen Nizam, executive director of the San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the pain might last forever, even as healing beings.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Those artists were ironic and aloof, treating advertising and mass-media imagery as expressions of a broader fug of celebrity and consumerism.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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In order to access it, a licensed treating physician must submit a request to Revolution Medicines, where an institutional review board then looks it over.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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“Administering (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administering%20%28to%29. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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