How to Use medicine in a Sentence

medicine

noun
Definition of medicinenext
Synonyms for medicinenext
  • Did you look in the medicine cabinet for a pain reliever?
  • Their research has led to many important advances in modern medicine.
  • There ain’t no money in the cure, the money’s in the medicine.
    — Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • This move changed the formulas of cough and cold medicines in the U.S..
    — Randy Hatton, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The best way to achieve the medicine of laughter is through people.
    — Sofia D'uva, oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • The plant will be a key pipeline for Eli Lilly’s medicine, Cox said.
    — Cooper Metts, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
  • Any change to PBMs will be met with worries that patients will not get their medicines.
    — Bob Kocher, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Don’t forget antacids and over-the-counter medicines to ease digestion.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Zack spent the next three years in and out of hospitals and trying medicines that didn’t seem to work.
    — Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Bryce Cohen has asthma and wasn't able to make an easy switch to the new generic of the medicine Flovent, his mother said.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Some people are willing to take the risk of a side effect because the benefit of the medicine is so great.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Getting to the crucible of change can really be helped through plant medicine.
    — David Moin, WWD, 14 June 2024
  • This first suite of studies shows three main ways the brain map can be used for biology and medicine.
    — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Transferred to the safekeeping of Qatar, the middleman in the hostage deal, the money may be used only to buy food or medicine.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There is no specific medicine to treat people who are sick with norovirus.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Burke was a physician first licensed to practice medicine in Colorado in 1981.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The consortium controls the road to the country’s main airport and seaport, leading to shortages of food and medicine.
    — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • That’s when Wyle, Wells and Gemmill pivoted to creating a new series set in the world of medicine.
    — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 26 June 2024
  • At the high school, the boys studied agriculture, medicine, law enforcement.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Gold, who was groggy from his medicine and just waking up, said adrenaline rushed through him as his eyes popped open.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • High prices, long waits and medicine shortages don’t help the situation, either.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Participants learn how plants were used for food, shelter and medicine.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This means that in some places a person must spend their entire income on life-sustaining medicine.
    — David Panzirer, STAT, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Rachel has worked in medicine One of the few siblings who doesn’t work in entertainment, Rachel worked as a physician’s assistant.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But as science and medicine continue their dogged onward march, aging is starting to look less set in stone.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • High prices are the reason that a company would attempt to develop a new medicine for a market of 1,000 patients.
    — Standish Fleming, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Without volunteers like Anabelle, the medicine would not have moved forward.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Too often, the future of medicine isn’t equally distributed.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Some experts claim that that gender-affirming care should be viewed like other forms of medicine where methods of treatment can be debated and discussed rather than the validity of it's need.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
  • This capability is within reach and represents an exciting frontier for AI in medicine.
    — Julio La Torre, STAT, 18 July 2024

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