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Recent Examples of prescription drug
He's also spoken about dealing with weed and prescription drug use in the aftermath.
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Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
He was best known for passing bills to crack down on school vaccine requirements, but also authored legislation to ban smoking at youth sports and control the prescription drug market.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Additional coverage, such as prescription drug plans or supplemental insurance, can add roughly $100 to $300 or more per month, depending on the plan.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Starting in July, the drug is expected to be available for $50 to eligible individuals on Medicare Part D—a federal prescription drug benefit program for adults who are aged 65 and older or have certain disabilities.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
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Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
He was best known for passing bills to crack down on school vaccine requirements, but also authored legislation to ban smoking at youth sports and control the prescription drug market.
—Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Additional coverage, such as prescription drug plans or supplemental insurance, can add roughly $100 to $300 or more per month, depending on the plan.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Starting in July, the drug is expected to be available for $50 to eligible individuals on Medicare Part D—a federal prescription drug benefit program for adults who are aged 65 and older or have certain disabilities.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prescription drug
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But the likeness ends there because, to be clear, Tyler did not use the occasion to tout patent medicines.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
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Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, the soft drink was initially sold at pharmacies as a patent medicine.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Purdue sold painkillers for decades, and, while laws vary by state, generally doctors, hospitals and pharmacies must keep prescription records for only a few years.—
Craig R. McCoy,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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The measures include a familiar dose of policy prescriptions to regulate energy demand, but also call for a long overdue rethink of Europe’s energy system, one that focuses on homegrown sources rather than reliance on fossil fuel imports from hostile neighbors or geopolitical hotspots.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Officers then arrested Harrison and searched his body, discovering seven more bags containing drugs.—
Lily Carey,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2026
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But the attack may have dealt a blow to the Mexican government’s assertions that the country is a safe place to visit, coming months after widespread attacks by criminal groups in response to a drug lord’s killing.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Services run the gamut from elaborate body treatments all the way to manicures, with a cornucopia of local botanicals integrated wherever possible.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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For a more refined evening, The Vesper Lounge will bring a Scandinavian and Japanese design to Katella Commons for botanical-forward cocktails, martinis and spritzes.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
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This advancement could bring these powerful light sources out of massive facilities and into more accessible labs, potentially reshaping research in physics, chemistry, medicine, and industry.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Apr. 2026
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Donations of clothing, food and medicine were life-saving to millions of people after World War II.—
William Lambers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
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Instead, the medication was laced with fentanyl.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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Revolution Medicines has received a voucher from the FDA’s Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher pilot program, which is designed to expedite the review of certain medications.—
Eva Flowe
April 21,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Apr. 2026
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Not a panacea Experts cautioned that EVs won’t fully solve problems around the green transition and energy security.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The use of video technology has increased the scrutiny, even though it was never sold as a panacea to the issue of refereeing misjudgments.—
Graham Scott,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Prescription drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prescription%20drug. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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