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as in tablet
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu
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as in dog
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
she can be such a pill when things don't go her way
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Recent Examples of pill
Help seems to be on the horizon: In addition to the news that a pill form of GLP-1 will be on the market in early 2026, Jastreboff says there are currently more than 100 weight-loss medications in early development.
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Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
People who take the pills tend to eat less overall.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2025
The players apparently believed that Kay was getting the opioid pills from some sort of official source, the attorney said.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
Like birth control pills, a treatment that works for one woman might cause side effects for another.
—Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2025
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Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
People who take the pills tend to eat less overall.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2025
The players apparently believed that Kay was getting the opioid pills from some sort of official source, the attorney said.
—Sean Emery, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
Like birth control pills, a treatment that works for one woman might cause side effects for another.
—Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pill
Noun
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Even seasoned travelers underestimate how quickly streaming and Bluetooth drain a phone or tablet at 35,000 feet.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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Players get their game plans delivered to their tablets the morning of each week’s first practice.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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And, the dog attacked again after the owner failed to secure the dog in a separate room.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Another 24 dogs were found emaciated inside, the Lee County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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Resilience has now flown four of those; the capsule also conducted Crew-1, SpaceX first operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, as well as Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn, the company's first and most recent private crew launches to Earth orbit, respectively.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Fragment has another buzzy collaboration coming this spring with its capsule of Air Jordan 1s with Union featuring three colorways with varying degrees of stock.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
12 Jan. 2026
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For those with less-briny palates, a fine jerk chicken and a number of steak cuts are also available.—
Jesse Ashlock,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mike’s older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), is our entry point to Hawkins High; a pretty striver, she’s recently been distracted from academics by a fling with popular jerk Steve Harrington (Joe Keery).—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Dec. 2025
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Brewer depicts the world of music impersonators with a fair amount of affection, like the rodeo clowns of late 20th-century America.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its shows featuring acrobats, athletes and clowns – all doing spectacular feats.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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Thiols are responsible for the distinctive aromas of skunk spray and ripe durian; they’re also added to natural gas to provide a detectable rotten-egg smell at even trace levels.—
Nicola Twilley,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Some owls will hunt the wildlife that raids our garbage cans, like skunks and opossums.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
2 Jan. 2026
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So Porter is now the guy the State Police have supposedly doing a deep dive on the clowns, grifters and assorted gender-bending jokers that Maura Healey hands six-figure hack sinecures to — judicial nominees, college presidents, the heads of the veterans’ homes, etc.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
29 Nov. 2025
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Even more rare is finding what hunters call a joker, a truffle, weighing in at 100 grams.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
26 Nov. 2025
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If an entrance hole is too large, smaller nesting birds will be vulnerable to predators and invasive species, including house sparrows, larger birds of prey, squirrels, snakes and even cats, which Hamlin says are birds’ top predators.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
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According to reports, there were fights in the snake-like queue that formed.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pill. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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