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clinic

noun

Definition of clinic

as in hospital

a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured After working as a city emergency room physician for many years, he started a small clinic in a remote village.

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an intensive educational or training program This winter, Shelley will attend a softball clinic to prepare herself for the upcoming season.

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Recent Examples of clinic The provider took his name, and other checks built Sanford Health into a Midwest powerhouse of hospitals and clinics. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 July 2026 George Mark and other homes like it don't have more than 10 bedrooms, so as not to feel like a clinic. — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 20 July 2026 As a medical research scientist at one of the top clinics in the world, I’ve been trained to pursue answers with steady urgency. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Organizations in suburban Cook County that would like the department to host an immunization clinic should complete a request form on the website. — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for clinic

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Noun

The children were taken to area hospitals, where they were all eventually pronounced dead.

— Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, investigators reviewed social media accounts, a website and a billboard in Latin America that advertised maternity packages at South Texas hospitals to foreign nationals.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026

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Our expert panel consisted of roughly three dozen coaches, general managers, personnel directors, scouts and front office staffers across the country, representing every conference.

— Antonio Morales, New York Times, 21 July 2026
If Congress is going to filter out new provisions to the Protect College Sports Act on a daily basis to take the temperature of the fans, why can't conferences discuss enforcing their own rules.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

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Corporations hired kaizen consultants and ran Deming seminars.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
As an example, the Office of Government Ethics said an industry-wide seminar attended by more than 100 people could be allowed if the employee’s participation would be in the agency’s interest.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

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