as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Recent Examples of medicine
Withdrawal symptoms usually start within 5 days of stopping the medicine and last 1 to 2 weeks, and are typically mild, according to the NHS and American Academy of Family Physicians.
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Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
These medicines include some anti-seizure medications, bile acid sequestrants, diabetes medications, and tricyclic antidepressants.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Feb. 2025
His byline has also appeared in the New York Times and UCLA Blueprint, covering on-campus protests, medicine and sports media.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
This action has stopped starving children from receiving food and medicine, many of whom will die as a direct result.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
These medicines include some anti-seizure medications, bile acid sequestrants, diabetes medications, and tricyclic antidepressants.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Feb. 2025
His byline has also appeared in the New York Times and UCLA Blueprint, covering on-campus protests, medicine and sports media.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
This action has stopped starving children from receiving food and medicine, many of whom will die as a direct result.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
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Organizations like Lopez’s help those with the disease access antiretroviral medications needed to reduce the risk of transmission, and give them a chance at a long, healthy life.—
Hira Humayun,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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His lawyers also argued that his longtime use of a medication to treat back pain could result in the pentobarbital used in lethal injections being ineffective or less effective.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Cartels will only be put out of business by legalizing drugs and immigration, not by declaring war on them.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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My heart hurts losing another friend 2 the throws of drug addiction & the insane fentanyl crisis thats taken over our country!—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lukens said Amica is considering many remedies, possibly including a lawsuit to stop the action.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Those searching for catharsis or an applicable remedy to their own heartaches and existential muddles will find only one definitive answer—that no person can ever fully know her own mind.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Both are palliatives but not cures to the challenge of creating a unified legal function capable of serving the needs of digital/AI-era business.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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The first season ended with Joel making the shocking decision to massacre a group of Fireflies, who planned to use Elle's immunity to make a cure for the infection but at the cost of her life.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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