as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
he's a hardened vet of many political campaigns
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Recent Examples of vet
Diet and exercise habits could vary from breed to breed and some owners may have different likelihoods of taking their dog to the vet.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 June 2025
Integrated into Dutch’s proprietary EMR and powered by OpenAI and Google Gemini, the system reduces documentation time from 20 minutes to five—enabling vets to see twice as many pets per day.
—Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
As Criss took home his award, fellow Glee vet Lea Michele was sitting in the audience.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
This year’s edition featured pop giants like Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, and Sabrina Carpenter, but also indie vets like Waxahatchee, Beach House and LCD Soundsystem.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 9 June 2025
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 June 2025
Integrated into Dutch’s proprietary EMR and powered by OpenAI and Google Gemini, the system reduces documentation time from 20 minutes to five—enabling vets to see twice as many pets per day.
—Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
As Criss took home his award, fellow Glee vet Lea Michele was sitting in the audience.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
This year’s edition featured pop giants like Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, and Sabrina Carpenter, but also indie vets like Waxahatchee, Beach House and LCD Soundsystem.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vet
veteran
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Alex Caruso, one of the team’s veterans, was a bench guy, until he was tasked with defending Nikola Jokić during the Thunder’s series against the Denver Nuggets, and did about as good a job as anyone has ever done of shutting Jokić down.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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Twenty-two a day has been a call-to-action statistic, although the most recent data from the 2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (using 2022 numbers) puts it at 17.6 veterans committing suicide per day, which is significantly higher than among non-veteran adults.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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“Vet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vet. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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