How to Use remission in a Sentence

remission

noun
  • The patient is in remission.
  • He was given remission for good behavior.
  • The others have been in remission for five to 12 months.
    WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • With his cancer now in remission, Miller hopes to be back on the field in 2022.
    Siera Jones, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2021
  • The tough teen withstood the chemo treatments and is in remission.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022
  • What are the chances this goes into remission and comes back?
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In fact, 29% were considered to be in remission at week three, the study found.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • By the way, April is in remission, to God be the glory, everybody.
    al, 31 July 2021
  • The mice went into remission and survived long enough to be put down for old age.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Fuller had battled cancer from the age of 3, going in and out of remission.
    Jolie Lash, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Around the time that Stevie went into remission, his mother asked the Misslers to adopt him.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • None of the other 50 dogs in the trial stayed in remission nearly as long as Jellybean.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • By the end of 2018, his oncologists had told him that the cancer was in remission.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Her daughter's cancer, which was in remission in 2019, has since returned and spread to her lymph nodes and chest.
    NBC News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • After two full years in remission, the cancer was back.
    Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
  • At this stage, Bryson and her colleagues consider the woman in a state of HIV remission.
    NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For some types of blood cancer, the therapy leads to remission in more than half of patients.
    Debby Waldman, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The two drugs enabled him to go into remission before the stem cell transplant could take place.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The woman has also been in remission from cancer for 4½ years now.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
  • While the 25 mg group showed some remission from depression at three weeks, the results were not sustained at 12 weeks.
    CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Lili said on Friday that Mack was given a 34-month remission.
    Reuters, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Adrian White had long battled leukemia and was in remission.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Blair, now 49, is in remission, meaning no new lesions have formed in her brain or on her spinal cord since the transplant more than two years ago.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Bragg himself is in remission from cancer, and in his 60s is living in the basement of his mother’s house.
    David Holahan, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Gregg Leakes, who was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer in 2018, was in remission for two years.
    Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
  • By 2017, Lou is in remission and their team is headed to the Super Bowl, which sparks the plan — not nearly as wild or crazy as the film presumes — for the four of them to attend.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That’s followed by a period of remission with no symptoms that can last for months and even years, the Mayo Clinic says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Yet many forms of cancer are now amenable to cures or long periods of remission and control.
    Andrew C. Von Eschenbach Reprints, STAT, 1 Aug. 2021
  • She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and entered remission about two years later.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 July 2024
  • The researchers considered a patient to have achieved remission of their depressive symptoms if their score fell to 10 or lower during the trial.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'remission.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: