Thesaurus results for BOTANICAL

botanical

noun

Definition of botanical

as in prescription

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Recent Examples of botanical Supplements fall into several categories, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and botanicals. — Sarah Garone, Health, 29 May 2026 There’s also a lineup of classic K-beauty botanicals—including ginseng, rosemary, heartleaf, green tea, and Centella asiatica—to soothe and comfort the scalp. — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 27 May 2026 Each gummy contains a mild blend of melatonin, L-theanine and botanicals to be taken only occasionally when sleep is difficult. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 For a more refined evening, The Vesper Lounge will bring a Scandinavian and Japanese design to Katella Commons for botanical-forward cocktails, martinis and spritzes. — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for botanical

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Hand off health insurance cards, prescriptions and medical paperwork so your student carries them, not you.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
Other medications including daily prescriptions, allergy tablets, pain relievers and over-the-counter medicines — generally need to be handled through the school health office.

— Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of prescription

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Grande became the face of an ongoing conversation around health, and the cultural pendulum swing away from body positivity to the glorification of thinness, ignited by the proliferation of weight-loss drugs.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026
Researchers spent decades trying to target a group of mutations called RAS — responsible for nearly a third of all human cancers — but the protein’s flat shape defied typical drugs.

— Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of drug

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My father had left academic medicine to open a solo surgical practice, and billing meant someone had to sit in front of a typewriter and create claims one by one.

— Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Still, charismatic leaders who have pushed for dollarization have failed to date, suggesting that the patient may not want the money doctor’s medicine.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of medicine

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The average prescription drug premium under an Advantage plan is estimated to be $8 monthly, substantially lower than the $36 average for Part D policies.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
On Thursday, Walmart, one of the nation’s largest retailers, reported its weakest sales growth since the pandemic recession in 2020, a dip blamed in part on falling prescription drug prices.

— Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of prescription drug

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So much so that as Shaker communities dwindled through the nineteenth century, others wanted the cachet of their name in the patent medicine world.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
But the likeness ends there because, to be clear, Tyler did not use the occasion to tout patent medicines.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025

Definition of patent medicine

Noun

At the time, a representative for Botanic Tonics, the company behind Feel Free, told USA TODAY its Feel Free Classic tonic contains only natural leaf kratom, with nearly undetectable levels of 7-OH.

— Charles Trepany, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
But al fresco dining is also available for breakfast and lunch guests, as is the beloved frozen gin and tonic and other day-time beverages Monday through Saturday.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of tonic

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For now, Neda, a 34-year-old Tehran resident struggling with kidney disease and needing medication, is holding her breath as she is once again forced to buy only half of her monthly dose.

— Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Clancy then ingested prescription medication, slashed her wrists and neck with a knife, and apparently threw herself head first out of a second-story window, resulting in permanent paralysis from the sternum down.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of medication

Noun

Anderson found the origins of present fads in the fervent nostrums of the past.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Because of the false but persistent and powerfully seductive nostrum that reducing the value of a country’s currency will stimulate its economy by making its exports cheaper and its imports more expensive.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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