clinics

plural of clinic
1
as in hospitals
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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as in workshops
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 clinics In Binga, a poor and isolated district in northwestern Zimbabwe, funding cuts forced Population Services Zimbabwe to slow down its mobile clinics. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 Narrowing the spread also weakens the incentive to steer patients toward costlier drugs and to acquire physician practices and infusion clinics — the very behaviors that have made care more expensive. — Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026 The general fund covers everything from Preckwinkle’s office to the courts and property tax system, while the health fund covers the county’s safety-net clinics and hospitals as well as its Medicaid program, CountyCare. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Confronting challenges The Pennsylvania Department of Health has hosted nearly 200 pop-up vaccination clinics where workers have given thousands of MMR doses since the start of the measles outbreak this spring. — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 So, if frequent skin treatments at clinics and spas are running up your credit card bill, Qure’s at-home system could be a solid (and more cost-efficient) alternative for getting glowing skin in the comfort of your own bathroom. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026 The real opportunity is to augment physical clinics rather than replace them. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Only about 55 percent of emergency departments did both, while 68 percent of clinics and 67 percent of urgent cares passed. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 The measure’s primary backer, SEIU-UHW, argues the clinics are misspending funds on items like executive compensation that should go towards patient care. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinics
Noun
  • Amata positions its facilities as industrial cities that include not just factories, but also living facilities like housing, schools, hospitals and shopping malls.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
  • During the first full fiscal year, half of the revenue would go to eligible hospitals, 45% to fire agencies and 5% to eligible nonprofits.
    — Haley Parsley October 12, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Emerging Filmmakers Program brings middle and high school students into screenings, discussions and workshops.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The events pledge to push for gender parity for films directed or produced by women, as well as in management and juries and for participants in panels and workshops.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Members sign up to a set of guidelines around victim protection, attend events and host seminars.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Brokers no longer face a mandatory 12-hour wait period between educational seminars and sales presentations.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In the eyes of the conferences, and CFP committee, the allure of a postseason bid is the carrot that would dangle in front of them so that fans would look the other way at the nonsense this creates for the football played in September or October.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • These conferences are hosted every four years by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and discuss measurement issues with member states worldwide.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

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“Clinics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinics. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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