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as in pill
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
take two tablets of the medication every eight hours
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Recent Examples of tablet
One intelligence everywhere Lenovo designed Qira as a single intelligence that follows users across PCs, tablets, smartphones, and wearables.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
The trio snuggled up to watch two other cute sisters — Bluey and her little sibling, Bingo — on a tablet propped up in bed in what appeared to be a hotel room.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
That lets kids get right down to playtime, without the danger of having to fire up a phone or tablet and risk getting distracted by feeds.
—New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2026
The Wegovy tablet and injection resulted in similar weight loss in clinical trials.
—Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
The trio snuggled up to watch two other cute sisters — Bluey and her little sibling, Bingo — on a tablet propped up in bed in what appeared to be a hotel room.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
That lets kids get right down to playtime, without the danger of having to fire up a phone or tablet and risk getting distracted by feeds.
—New Atlas, 6 Jan. 2026
The Wegovy tablet and injection resulted in similar weight loss in clinical trials.
—Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tablet
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And host Cynthia Littleton offers reporter’s notebook observations after a week that started with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and ended with the Golden Globe Awards swirl in Hollywood.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
12 Jan. 2026
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Several Altoona officers testified during a three-week hearing in state court where Mangione is seeking to exclude evidence police seized from his backpack, including the alleged murder weapon, a notebook and writings.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Louisiana was pushing to extradite Remy Coeytaux, a physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, who allegedly provided pills to a Louisiana woman in 2023.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Eli Lilly shares dropped 5% on a Reuters report that the Federal Drug Administration extended review deadlines on several drugs, including Lilly’s orforglipron — its experimental, once-daily GLP-1 pill to treat type two diabetes and obesity.—
Paulina Likos,Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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Once the pads came on, Suamataia took virtually every first-team rep at left tackle.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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Even one of the greatest ever to play this game, Joe Root, could not work out how to break free of the 36-year-old’s shackles here, failing to score a single run off him for 23 balls in a row before finally yielding to the python-like grip when missing one that homed in on his pads.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 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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“Tablet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tablet. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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