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Recent Examples of convalescent
Her first book, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, brought us to a Finnish convalescent hospital, and left us in the arms of a malevolent surgeon.
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convalescent
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Inspired by Matute’s personal experience as a carer for her mother, an Alzheimer disease sufferer, during her early adulthood, the title was always a main competition frontrunner.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Bromodosis tends to be worse for those around than for the sufferer.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Some of the victims had been wearing backpacks equipped with airbags that can help keep people on the surface of an avalanche, but had not pulled the cords to deploy the bags, the report said.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Responding officers discovered that the victim suffered from wounds to his head and body and also found a bloody hammer.—
DeJanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The seven-story, 181,000 square-foot building will include a crisis stabilization unit, residential treatment, transitional housing, outpatient services and health care services.—
Jim DeFede,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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That was Terry Olay, the outpatient services coordinator at Childress, who died of cancer herself in 2009.—
Caleb Hellerman,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The legislators want $500 million annually to restore California’s share of Medi-Cal inpatient costs to public hospital systems.—
Linh Tat,
Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Surgical case volume increases as operating rooms are less frequently underutilized due to postsurgical inpatient bed shortages that force case postponement.—
Eugene Litvak,
STAT,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Gabapentin has proved effective at helping some mastectomy patients with stubborn pain, while others have responded to electrodes implanted in their spinal column, according to the Baylor study, published in 2024.—
Brett Kelman,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Events like these show how attacks on health technology companies can affect patients, hospitals and pharmacies across the country.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Convalescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convalescent. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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