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doctor

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verb (1)

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as in to treat
to give medical treatment to a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again

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doctors

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noun (2)

plural of doctor

doctors

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of doctor
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as in treats
to give medical treatment to a pledge to doctor the burn victims until they were whole again

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Noun
But Rios’ doctor realized that something else was happening in his brain and referred him to the Young-Onset Dementias Clinic at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Cnn.com, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025 Which any doctor will tell you will just kill your patient. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
Furthermore, YouTube misinformation policies prohibit content that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads viewers. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2025 When Levinson first flashes back to Frank and Vito’s early days, the production boosts credibility by presenting vintage black-and-white stills, doctored to include the cast. Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for doctor

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“Doctor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doctor. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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