How to Use GI in a Sentence

GI

noun
Definition of GInext
  • Girls might trade Barbie dolls, while boys might trade baseball cards or GI Joes.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • This soluble fiber adds bulk to stool and ensures its smooth passage through the GI tract.
    — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Ld, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
  • While a person is losing water through sweat, the blood flow to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract may weaken.
    — Gabrielle Kassel, Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One common cause of upper GI bleeding in babies is ulcers, so be sure to check with your doctor.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 17 July 2023
  • Neon glass blowing schools popped up and were filled by veterans receiving job training via the GI Bill.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Bland foods, like toast and crackers, may also ease any GI issues and help restore your blood sugar levels.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 6 July 2023
  • Yarbrough, 53, grew up playing with Barbies while his brothers opted for GI Joes.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • Slow-moving food and stool throughout the GI tract contribute to the link between constipation and nausea.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Its main purpose is to act as a temporary storage and processing unit for food on its way through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The animals also didn’t seem to have any severe side effects or complications from having the pill pass through their GI tracts.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This prevents unnecessary weight gain and helps to prevent any GI upset.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Eating flaxseed might even ease menopausal symptoms, which—among its many other nuisances—can often include GI issues.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
  • It's been compared to the GI Bill in its ability to launch some young adults into the middle class, thus benefiting their communities, too.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • With the help of a lawyer, Allen was granted his honorable discharge earlier this year and this month finished his first semester of college using his GI bill.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There are treatments for some bacterial and parasitic GI pathogens.
    — Julia Ries, Health, 30 Aug. 2023
  • For semaglutide, the majority of GI side effects are mild to moderate in severity and of short duration.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The symptoms of food sensitivity are usually just felt in the GI system—think bloating, gas, and diarrhea.
    — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Ld, Clec, Verywell Health, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Thanks to a prescient move by lawmakers while the war was still on, passage of the 1944 GI Bill, many of the returning vets were absorbed by our universities, rather than joining unemployment rolls all at once.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • That’s because, among other indignities, the perimenopausal and menopausal period brings with it a notable surge in digestive and GI issues.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Gideon: Just to clarify, then the difference between now and a few decades ago when the GI Bill passed and when there wasn't, in fact, a big wage premium on going to college, what was that the difference between then and now, in terms of opportunity.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Also, the gluconate form can be known to cause more gastrointestinal (GI) upset than other forms of iron.1 These tablets also contain artificial colorings.
    — Casey Seiden, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes chronic inflammation of the GI tract.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Stress and Anxiety Stress and anxiety may also affect your poop because your brain directly communicates with your gastrointestinal (GI) system.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Another example is the GI system; studies have found that exposure to gamma radiation that is commonly found in long-duration spaceflight is a risk factor for colorectal cancer.
    — Sai Balasubramanian, M.d., J.d., Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Taking magnesium supplements with meals may also minimize GI distress.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • At the trial’s end, more people in the treatment group said their fatigue, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, GI upset, and general unwellness had eased compared with people in the placebo group, which also generally felt improvement.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Because semaglutide is so routinely linked to gastrointestinal (GI) distress, doctors also may broach other tactics to avoid these often painful and day-ruining side effects; tools such as portion control and limiting alcohol intake, for example.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 4 July 2023
  • The condition can affect several body systems, including the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal (GI) systems.
    — Tammy Worth, Health, 14 June 2024
  • Research has suggested that approximately 73% of menstruating people experience at least one of the primary gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms either before or during menstrual bleeding.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 13 July 2023
  • Girls might trade Barbie dolls, while boys might trade baseball cards or GI Joes.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024

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