ATTENDINGS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

attendings

noun

plural of attending

as in hospitalists

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Noun

Patients, doulas, and physicians are often responding to different versions of the same birth.

— Debra Eluobaju, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
The plan includes several standalone offices for physicians, specialty medical groups, and health systems, tink Crescent said Thursday.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of physicians

Noun

Patrick Clancy testified that after the birth of their third child, his ex-wife was under the care of several mental health clinicians, but continued to deteriorate.

— Carmel Wroth, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
The union, representing about 2,700 lecturers, clinicians and librarians, won a June election with roughly 70% support, but USC has appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to toss the result.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of clinicians

Noun

Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel and his brothers Zeke and Rahm have donated $550,000 towards a program to train Palestinian doctors from the West Bank at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Knight claimed that Afeni allegedly gave her son pills to end his life, though doctors brought him back.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of doctors

Noun

The company has previously provided production services on Mobland and The Agency, but to this point has been known for docs and factual shows such as The Footballer, His Wife and the Crash, Death in the Heartlands and The Footballer Fraudster.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Others are likely to follow in his footsteps, because docs about the worst day of someone’s life and the terrible things people do to one another is a genre of entertainment that audiences can’t get enough of.

— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of docs

Noun

Harper said the driver was unresponsive, and the officer removed the driver and began to perform CPR until Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District medics arrived.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The garden and museum honor military veterans, firefighters, law enforcement officers, medics, and service animals.

— Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2026

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