as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Recent Examples of medicine
Interested in a career in medicine, Hill has worked as a pharmacy technician at Walgreens.
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Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Patients may also receive medicines to manage their blood pressure and minimize other symptoms.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
Some of these ones that have been run by Amish are coming up in the news and are facing some penalties for practicing medicine.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 6 June 2026
She was grounded in caregiving, in medicine, in science, in helping patients with real physical healing.
—Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
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Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Patients may also receive medicines to manage their blood pressure and minimize other symptoms.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
Some of these ones that have been run by Amish are coming up in the news and are facing some penalties for practicing medicine.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 6 June 2026
She was grounded in caregiving, in medicine, in science, in helping patients with real physical healing.
—Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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Bell said the federal evaluator in Chicago, where Brown has been held for competency observation and evaluation, determined Brown is not competent to stand trial at this time, but his prognosis for being restored to competency with medication is good.—
Andy Buck,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
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Gopuff, based in Philadelphia, is a delivery service for everything from groceries and household items to over-the-counter medications and alcohol, according to the company website.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2026
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This matters because viscosity — the thickness of the drug — dictates how patients absorb medicine.—
Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
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Oncologist Coral Omene at Rutgers Cancer Institute, for example, plans to follow 40 breast cancer patients starting tirzepatide, a GLP-1 drug sold under the brand names Mounjaro and Zepbound.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
9 June 2026
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This distinction matters because the appropriate remedy depends on the problem being solved.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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Interim letters are expected to be mailed June 8, while additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available, anticipated in August 2026.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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His room came with a balcony and a wooden lounge chair for taking a rest cure, just as patients did a century ago.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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While the science is always evolving, colostrum should be viewed as a promising but still largely unproven supplement rather than a cure-for-all wellness product.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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