medicates

Definition of medicatesnext
present tense third-person singular of medicate
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  • After her godson doctors her résumé, Maya lands a C-suite job at a beauty company and almost immediately makes an enemy out of the boss’ daughter.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Also, first-time buyers need a state government that is actually on their side, not one that treats housing as an abstract debate.
    Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • The county needs leadership that treats housing production as urgent while getting the details right.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026—colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticness—you, like me, will have read Akhavan’s intentions completely wrong.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • The county executive also appoints people to fill vacancies throughout county government, attends Legislature meetings as a non-voting member, investigates internal issues and transfers staffers between departments.
    Ilana Arougheti May 6, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • Her father — struggling with poverty and the grief over his wife's death — wants to shoot it, but Jessica secretly nurses the animal back to health, bringing her closer to her father in the process.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Romvari’s film binds together impressionistic recollections from Jeremy’s 8-year-old sister Sasha (Eylul Guven).
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
  • Once converted into its active form, vitamin D binds to receptors in immune cells and supports the body in several ways, including enhancing the innate immune system, regulating and calming the adaptive immune system and reducing the risk of some inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
    Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
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“Medicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicates. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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