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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convalescents
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The Israeli strikes killed five people around the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, according to the official news agency NNA, and the army said a soldier was along the victims.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026 -
As distressing as their circumstance is, Naim and Ryan are unmistakably positioned as heroic lovers, not victims-to-be.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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Managing or controlling vending machines with vapes or nicotine products is also an offense, unless in mental health hospitals mainly for inpatients.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
23 Apr. 2026
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The hospital shuttered its emergency department on Wednesday, and then worked to transfer its inpatients to other hospitals by the end of the day Friday.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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The study also found that the number of children aged fiveto 17 who were prescribed leucovorin as outpatients increased by 71 percent.—
Sara Novak,
Scientific American,
5 Mar. 2026
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When people were also treated with a long-acting form of an opioid-blocking medication called naltrexone, relapse rates dropped across all settings — to 59% after short-term inpatient care, 46% after long-term inpatient care and 38% for those treated as outpatients.—
Emma Fenske,
The Conversation,
12 Feb. 2026
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Of the remaining four patients, one remained in surgery and three other people who also underwent surgery were in recovery, Richardson said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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Researchers want patients better informed.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
13 June 2026
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“Convalescents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convalescents. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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