medical examiner

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Recent Examples of medical examiner The former medical examiner noted that evidence indicates Quatisha was bitten by other marine animals, including a snapping turtle. Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026 An 81-year-old Evergreen Park woman was found dead of cold exposure at her home Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026 On Thursday afternoon, staffers from the city’s medical examiner’s office were seen wheeling out one of the victims in a black body bag. Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026 The cause of death is pending a report from the medical examiner's office. Paula Wethington, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for medical examiner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medical examiner
Noun
  • Unlike with an infection, where doctors can use an objective blood test to pinpoint the bacteria or virus causing the problem, there are few simple tests to determine what kind of mental health disorder someone has.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Then, in the fifth century BCE, came the Greek doctor Hippocrates.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The country is experiencing a significant shortage of doctors in primary care, leaving millions without a family physician and contributing to longer emergency room waits and poorer health outcomes.
    Ahmad Mukhtar, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • More than a third of counties in the United States do not have an ob/gyn, a family physician or a certified nurse-midwife.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For nearly a millennia and half, even in the centuries when physicians were beginning to supplant priests in treating the ill, epileptic convulsions (unexpected, frightening, enigmatic) remained the territory of the priest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Todd Randall Wilcox, a correctional health-care physician and the former president of the American College of Correctional Physicians, reviewed the medical records associated with Roque Campos’s hospital visits, as part of expert testimony for the class-action suit.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Reldan, an independent private-practice family doctor and college professor, offers appointments at her home office.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Pediatricians and family doctors are urged to check booster status for teens and adults.
    Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Three people in Lehigh County died shoveling during the storm, the coroner said.
    Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The coroner has ruled her death a homicide.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Williams then threw Azari into the arm of a couch, causing the infant to bounce and perhaps hit his head on the wall, and causing what a pathologist concluded were injuries consistent with the profound brain bleeding and spinal column fracture the physician found in an autopsy.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In addition to these injuries, the pathologist noted a fourth wound, described as a graze wound consistent with a firearm injury, but with no penetration.
    Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And so should a family practitioner who went to osteopathic school.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
  • The company will sell directly to potential customers, alongside clinicians and family practitioners.
    Erin Brodwin, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That's a remarkably wide release for a documentary — a film form which rarely exerts the same box office pull as fiction features — meaning Melania will be easier to see on the big screen than most docs.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Another doc that Campfire is making fits somewhere in the true-crime space, albeit in a financial sense.
    Peter White, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Medical examiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medical%20examiner. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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