botanical

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Recent Examples of botanical These gins aren’t always limited to true botanicals. Camille Berry, Vogue, 15 July 2025 The Japanese botanicals hung together act as one piece of art, while speaking to the other hues in the room. Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2025 Another classic gin cocktail, the martini has endless summer variations that can be fruity or botanical. Sarah Perez, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 The spirit is infused with nine different botanicals, including juniper, cinnamon, almonds, and orris root. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for botanical
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Noun
  • The amount of the monthly bill may change, such as when there’s a new prescription or the plan’s deductible is met.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Still, people who take prescription doses of lithium — which were much higher than the doses used in the new study — can sometimes develop thyroid or kidney toxicity.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Their calls to abolish those search warrants joined the nationwide movement triggered by the 2020 police shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in Louisville, Kentucky, during a flawed drug investigation.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Rudi, 43, was also due to face two charges relating to the same drugs plot as his younger brother.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, some areas of medicine, such as psychiatry, would face increasing criticism, including from social movements representing women and LGBT people.
    Time, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When Alec Flynn was in college, the comedian began using standup as a form of medicine to help with depression.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Trump told reporters on Sunday that his administration had cut the price of some prescription drugs by as much as 1,500 percent.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The Trump administration does have another tool at its disposal to lower the cost of prescription drugs: Medicare drug pricing negotiations.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • The school, which occupied a massive home that patent medicine entrepreneur and Civil War surgeon Col. George G. Green built for his daughter in 1912, was full of intact original details, like decorative tiles in the faculty bathroom, bronze sconces in the hallways and an old intercom system.
    Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • His point was that the pills — a patent medicine used as a laxative — and the other three would all reliably deliver for the poor folks of the Mountain State.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Darling's offers a wide selection of gin, cocktails, and other drinks, including a popular house gin and tonic.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Tyrion received medication to reduce inflammation for a few weeks, but there was no injury or surgery to recover from—only the need to adapt to life as a paralyzed dog.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • During the early 20th century, bromide salts were available in an array of over-the-counter medications aimed at issues like anxiety, insomnia, and hysteria.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But Wolff’s work and influence, alongside a simultaneous rise in the fields of psychology and psychosomatic medicine, helped to disperse those nostrums into the wider culture—and into the prevailing paradigm within which other headache scientists and clinicians toiled.
    Tom Zeller Jr. July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • His personal integrity conflicts with liberal nostrums, resulting in Fish and Poinsettia’s bizarre repulsion-attraction rapport.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025

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“Botanical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/botanical. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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