How to Use palliative in a Sentence

palliative

1 of 2 adjective

• He has been given months to live and is in palliative care.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• In fact, she was drawn to palliative care because of them.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 30 Aug. 2023
• At that point, the doctors sent him home with my sister and me for palliative care.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
• But the best thing for this patient would have been to continue on the palliative route.
  — Julie Roskamp, STAT, 24 Nov. 2023
• There to guide her along the journey was the Rev. Jo Laurence, a hospice and palliative care chaplain.
  — Gosia Wozniacka, ajc, 15 May 2022
• No more changes, for now, said Dr. Mona Raed, Chase's palliative care physician.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2021
• But that is to ignore the tender science of palliative care.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 Mar. 2021
• As of now, just as long as what is offered is a genuine palliative product, things are fine.
  — Hiren Mansukhani, Quartz India, 14 June 2020
• That time was often spent in a hospital, rather than at home or in palliative care.
  — Robert Pearl, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• And this was week two of my job as a palliative-care practitioner.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020
• The National Hockey League said that the cause was cancer and that Lafleur had died in a palliative care center.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• The patient was placed on palliative care and died in early 2021, according to the report.
  — Garrett Moore, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2022
• Clarke, a palliative care doctor within the NHS, says patients and those who care for them need more support.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• Some choose perinatal palliative care in the hope of a peaceful death in the loving arms of family.
  — Abigail Wilpers and Kristen Gosnell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
• If baseball is said to be dying, Larry Lucchino and the team’s other owners are not yet ready to call in the palliative care.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• The poison has to be broken down by the body into more palliative form (of acetate), which then can be processed out as waste (through breath, urine, et al.).
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• And many of our locations will not be able to do more than isolate people and provide palliative care.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2020
• Boyd leads the palliative care department at St. Joseph in Orange.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Jonnie Irwin is opening up about spending the past three years in palliative care.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• Irwin explained that he’s been in palliative care since day one after learning about the cancer.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• It's intended for patients in palliative care and those in need of long-term care who cannot visit home and get quality time with their pets.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
• At the time, heart surgery was largely palliative because the heart had to function during the operation.
  — A. J. Baime, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2020
• Ben and his brothers hired a hospice service to provide palliative care.
  — John Rosengren, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• In a clinical setting, alongside the presence of a therapist, the drug gives patients a sense of calm and openness that can be palliative.
  — Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
• The forces that created climate change are now selling us palliative care for climate change.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Integrating a team of palliative providers into my own treatment, to see my plight as a whole and not just on cancer's terms, has been crucial.
  — Tori Geib As Told To Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2020
• The palliative care service was available to patients from hospitals across New York City.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2020
• Better to get outside and move, if only to walk, which as counterpoint to being homebound is as palliative as any pill.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• His mother, then 69, was in palliative care with kidney failure.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• There’s little morphine or other painkillers for palliative care.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024

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palliative

2 of 2 noun

• The disease has no cure, but a number of palliatives exist.
• Travel is like a palliative against depression for him.
• In summary, pediatric palliative care aims to bring light to a dark time and a sense of peace.
  — Amanda Alladin, M.d., miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2018
• The center is one of the largest pediatric palliative care programs in the United States.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Keep in mind that palliative care may also be an option.
  — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
• In fact, the growth of palliative care and hospice is one of the most significant movements in recent years.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• The new Downton Abbey movie is a drug, a delight, a palliative for the pain of being, a balm for battered emotions, a cure for cynicism.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2019
• Burda said palliative care allows the patient the option of going back and forth to the hospital.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 20 Apr. 2018
• Arnold was moved to Sycamores nursing home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire for palliative care, but died on April 30.
  — Aletha Adu, Fox News, 10 June 2018
• After that decision — or if the drug doesn’t work — what kind of palliative care is available when death is not in six months away but may be six years away, or longer?
  — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• The sentence is spoken to a palliative-care nurse who has been tending the writer’s dying mother.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• The New York financier, who uses a wheelchair and back brace, was admitted to palliative care in July.
  — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
• His route to providing palliative care was a circuitous one.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Watching someone give in to chaos and panic can be palliative for an audience.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Doctors have prescribed Vantas, along with other forms of Lupron, as a palliative for prostate cancer.
  — Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2021
• At 12 weeks into the study, depression symptoms in the palliative care group were roughly half those reported in the standard care group.
  — Devan Stuart Lesley, PEOPLE.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Watching vets choose to endure their pain can be hard for families, as well as for palliative care doctors and nurses.
  — April Dembosky, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• Weaver's first bill would create a task force that would help the Department of Public Health develop a form for a palliative and end of life care order for minors.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Several studies show that early palliative care has been shown to help patients live longer and better.
  — Liz Szabo, CNN, 15 June 2017
• Young is trained in internal medicine and rheumatology, as well as hospice and palliative-care medicine.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Paralyzed, and using a feeding tube, Mr. Perry was moved to a palliative-care center.
  — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• His exasperation with the world at large can seem studied at times, a gimmicky palliative to take the offending edge off his humor.
  — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
• Unlike in humans, the goal isn’t curative, but palliative.
  — S.e. Smith, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2017
• There have been no reports of abuse from nurses across the country, said Mukasahaha, the nation's palliative care director.
  — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
• At least 84 percent were already enrolled in hospice or palliative care.
  — Hattie Xu, sacbee, 30 June 2017
• This rewardingly democratic night, in this time of endless crazy, feels like a palliative.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• But the measures taken so far are temporary palliatives.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• Leven said New York was one of the relatively few states to have enacted laws governing palliative care.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2019
• The palliative care team is encouraging him to dial back on his father’s aggressive care.
  — Karen Weintraub, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
• There is no direct evidence that HCA’s palliative and hospice care push was intended to increase its executives’ pay.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 21 June 2023

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