as in drugstore
a retail store where medicines and miscellaneous articles are sold
stopped at the pharmacy for tissues and cold medicine
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Recent Examples of pharmacy
GoodRx has spent years building that foundation with nearly 30 million consumers and over one million healthcare professionals using us annually, established pharmacy partners, and a platform designed to deliver affordability at scale.
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Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
And there are a lot of adults who are having trouble getting this vaccine in their pharmacies.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
Most Covid-19 vaccinations in the US have happened at pharmacies.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
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Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
And there are a lot of adults who are having trouble getting this vaccine in their pharmacies.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
Most Covid-19 vaccinations in the US have happened at pharmacies.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pharmacy
drugstore
Noun
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Finding the best drugstore moisturizer should entail a little playtime, and that’s doctor’s orders.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
4 Sep. 2025
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Walgreens investment in VillageMD was expensive, and cost the drugstore chain billions of dollars.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Pharmacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pharmacy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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