coroners

Definition of coronersnext
plural of coroner

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of coroners The committee working on the legislation includes seven county coroners and a deputy coroner; representatives of city, county and state law enforcement agencies; a deputy county prosecutor; a county commissioner and a tribal member. Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 Deputy coroners have medical degrees and have higher salaries than the coroner, whose salary is set by the state. Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coroners
Noun
  • Government pathologists conducted autopsies on Thursday to determine the cause of death.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Speech-language pathologists are the health care professionals who evaluate and treat swallowing disorders.
    Sundeep Venkatesan, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The American Jewish community responded to the Yom Kippur War, which killed nearly three thousand Israeli soldiers, by flooding Israel with donations; doctors and students volunteered to join the war effort.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • However, in a pair of letters to the editor published in the Journal of Pediatrics, doctors criticized the article as hyped.
    David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some cases are referred to physicians for medical or psychiatric review when additional evaluation is needed.
    Natalia V. Osipova, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Many of those claims, which physicians must help their patients sort out, come from the very administration advocating for physician nutrition education.
    Christopher Duggan, STAT, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Police said medics responded to the scene and took the woman to a hospital.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Additional officers arrived and are seen providing medical aid, including chest compressions, before medics arrived.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Night Train positions itself as a specialist in co-production and co-financing for TV series, feature films and docs.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • At Georgia Tech, my team of students and post-docs has spent more than a decade tackling this problem.
    J. Carson Meredith, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, certified nurse-midwives deliver babies and provide prenatal and postpartum care, especially in areas where there are few obstetricians.
    Kymberlee Montgomery, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, her unit was becoming increasingly short-staffed as other obstetricians left and retired.
    Natalie Krebs, NPR, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Coroners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coroners. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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