PILLS Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

pills

noun

plural of pill

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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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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 pills The agency had helped fund academic research that later formed the basis for two Gilead HIV pills, Truvada and Descovy. — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 July 2026 The participants underwent a battery of physical exams, and then were put on personalized protocols, prescribed by doctors, before receiving their first pills and injections. — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 Researchers are already exploring approaches such as lowering doses, taking medicines less frequently (like monthly or quarterly), or switching from injections to pills. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 11 July 2026 During the investigation, law enforcement seized more than six kilograms of methamphetamine pills, about 600 grams of metonitazene pills and about 300 grams of pills containing a synthetic amphetamine, officials said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026 What This Means for You Though researchers didn’t test this in humans, the findings still suggest that using alkaline water to swallow pills could weaken their protective coating, potentially causing the drug to release too soon. — Zoe Cunniffe, Health, 9 July 2026 Investigators also reportedly found two unused syringes and several white pills inside a bag in his vehicle. — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026 This small-but-mighty organizer features 10 compartments of various sizes and can fit up to a week’s worth of pills. — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2026 Over that period, affiliates dispensed about 25% fewer packs of birth control pills and conducted about 20% fewer breast cancer exams than the previous year. — ABC News, 6 July 2026

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Noun

The whole memory industry is experiencing soaring prices due to the AI crunch, which means there's also a shortage for traditional memory needed for phones, tablets, PCs, cars, medical devices and other products.

— Kif Leswing,Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
Wild Orchard is beginning to roll out additional ways to consume its green tea, including single-serve shots and concentrated tablets–all different vessels to retrieve these hyper-intensive health benefits with utmost efficiency.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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Sit, who went by the first name Tony, operated Happy K9 Academy and the dogs were in his care when they were kept in crates in a hot van and died, the district attorney’s office said.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 11 July 2026
When you’ve been tasked with crafting a home intended to welcome friends, host community gatherings, encourage kids’ indoor-outdoor adventures accompanied by dogs, bunnies, and a visiting pig, that’s the goal.

— Genevieve Walker, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026

Definition of dogs

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Officers searched Clarke's car and found several large bags of clear capsules containing a green powdery substance, according to a police report.

— Jake Rosenwasser, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Its leaves, which contain two major psychoactive ingredients called mitragynine and 7-hydroxymytragynine (7-OH), can be brewed in teas, smoked or used as gel capsules.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

Definition of capsules

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Chung and her colleagues treat cells with diverse drugs and simultaneously measure intracellular regulatory proteins, including the direct drug targets, and the transcriptome over a longitudinal time course.

— Rachel Martin, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
In anticipation of the birth of his son, Ferguson had kicked a nagging heroin habit, trading his addiction to drugs for an infatuation with activism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

Definition of drugs

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The team's doctor administered treatment doses according to height, with a standardized measuring tape against the wall to help determine the dose.

— William McCarthy, NPR, 4 July 2026
One study suggested that patients should be prescribed three or four doses, as well as an additional dose in case it’s needed.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

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After several weeks at the center, the skunks each reached their necessary weight, and organization officials decided the skunks were ready to return to their natural habitat.

— Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
The other rabid animals were five bats and one each cat, coyote, skunk and woodchuck.

— Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 3 July 2026

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