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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patent medicines
prescriptions
Noun
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The employee, 35-year-old Shelbi Wolken of Wheat Ridge, allegedly used the patients' information to pick up the patients' prescriptions at the hospital's in-house pharmacy herself.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026 -
Between 2021 and 2022, Reese allegedly received more than $70,000 from Alireza Moheb, a Lafayette dentist who in 2023 pleaded guilty to trading painkiller prescriptions to drug dealers in East Contra Costa for cocaine.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Patent medicines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patent%20medicines. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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