as in ministering (to)
to attend to the needs and comforts of
volunteers administering to the terminally ill at a hospice
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According to the Associated Press, Crouser was nursing a pretty serious elbow injury called nerve entrapment which required an MRI to evaluate his right arm.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Rypien started for the Rams for one game in Green Bay with Stafford nursing a thumb injury in 2023.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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The country is home to its own richly-layered history of healing techniques and traditions dating back thousands of years to indigenous people groups like the Aztecs and Mayas.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Robert Redford directed this 1998 drama about a mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) trying to help her daughter overcome trauma from a riding accident by bringing her to Montana, where Redford's rancher has a gift for healing horses and human hearts.—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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While technology has always played a role in diagnosing and treating disease, the health care industry as a whole has been slower to adopt innovative digital platforms for analyzing data to change how care is delivered.—
Alice Park,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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Alnylam’s therapeutics are being explored for treating genetic, heart and neurological diseases.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Administering (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administering%20%28to%29. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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