as in to minister (to)
to attend to the needs and comforts of
volunteers administering to the terminally ill at a hospice
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She's become very playful and has made a new best friend with the dog in the home where she is being nursed back to health.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025 -
Barber has made an O-line-leading 26 starts, including all 13 games in last season despite nursing various injuries.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 June 2025
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Moo Deng was born on July 10, 2024, to mother Jona and father Tony at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Lupita Nyong'o stars as Roz, a service robot who washes up on a small island with no human inhabitants and must figure out how to adapt her programming to the wilderness while mothering a baby goose.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
23 May 2025
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On the final night of the convention, two of the stars who also happen to be incredibly talented musicians, treated fans to an intimate concert in a local venue on the square, Canopy + The Roots.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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Still, Douglas doesn’t treat film as a documentary but as a document about storytelling and about how film can be used to elicit historical bigness.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Administer (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administer%20%28to%29. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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