the doctor

noun

variants or the doctor's
: the place where a doctor works
I saw her at the doctor's last week.
How long will you be at the doctor?

Examples of the doctor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Having a weekday to handle your business—to call the doctor’s office, to call the mortgage company, to clean the house—has been huge. Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024 Conan Doyle eventually abandoned his medical career, but his training lived on in the character Watson, the doctor who narrates the Holmes stories. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2024 Here are some expert tips for getting over an anxiety spiral—and into the doctor’s office. Katie Way, SELF, 9 Apr. 2024 Another doctor who attended was taken aback when Biden claimed to have already seen photos of malnourished women and children in Gaza — except the doctor had printed the photos from her own phone. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024 And that's what triggered me to call the doctor's office immediately. Nathan Luna, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024 In this rendition, the doctor’s wife, Katherine, has died, giving their daughter Petra more responsibility. Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024 And maybe this would end her pain, and the doctor visits. Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024 In Frisco, the doctor protagonist calls a U.S. congresswoman. Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024

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“The doctor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20doctor. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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