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patent medicines

noun

plural of patent medicine
as in prescription drugs

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prescriptions
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  • Every day, Hy-Vee pharmacy manager Erin Jensen dispenses prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs, the weight-loss medications that have more than tripled in popularity in the last two years in the United States.
    — Israel Schuman, Des Moines Register, 22 Sep. 2026
  • These two nationalist traditions offered starkly different diagnoses of Brazil’s problems and divergent political prescriptions.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
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“Patent medicines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patent%20medicines. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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