as in bolus
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Mazlish watched as his wife programmed her insulin pump to deliver both dribbles of basal insulin throughout the day and a large bolus with meals.—
Carrie Arnold,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025 -
Unlike human pesticides, though, termite boluses were not lethal to the weed.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Oct. 2025
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His doctors lowered the dosage and slowed the injection time to give his body a better chance — but even that didn't work.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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The study was done mainly in cell cultures and mice, not humans, so clinical safety and dosage need testing.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Oct. 2025
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Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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Absorption also depends on factors like supplement type and dose, medications, other nutrients in your diet, food interactions, age, genetics, and even hormones.—
Trang Tran,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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These capsules are similar to gelcap pills and deliver enormous amounts of THC in a small package.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2024
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Avodart is taken by mouth as a gelcap at a daily 0.5-mg dose.—
Elizabeth Boskey,
Verywell Health,
5 June 2023
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Campaign ads, showing images of flash-mob robberies, promised voters that harsher penalties would put an end to basic items being locked away in display cases and funnel people repeatedly arrested for drug offenses in treatment.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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While administration officials have avoided overtly saying their goal is regime change — Trump has focused his public remarks on fighting drug cartels — the ultimate goal of democratizing Venezuela, and the resulting investment benefits, are front and center in investors’ minds.—
Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Pilule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilule. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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