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Recent Examples of medicate
The decision came nearly three years after the judge ordered that Dear be medicated against his will in 2022.
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Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
There is a medical crisis — some characters medicate themselves to be happy, others turn to drugs.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Both times − a few hours after the shooting and then two days later − the teen was in University of Cincinnati Medical Center's surgical intensive care unit, medicated and hooked up to medical devices, his attorney, Mark Anliker, pointed out.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
This is something that any pet owner with a cat that is challenging to medicate needs to bring up with their veterinarian.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
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If that variability truly influences how a patient will fare with different treatments, psychiatry may need to advance how depression is diagnosed and thus treated, Bentzley said.—
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Miyazaki’s singular style — his hand-drawn, painterly aesthetic and his thematic focus on a child’s-eye view of morally complex, humanistic tales — has been treated as the sole Asian animation worthy of entry into the Oscar canon.—
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Both winners will be invited to attend the 2026 Pro Bowl Games and Super Bowl LX in the San Francisco Bay Area and will be honored throughout Super Bowl week.—
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Three board members attended the session.—
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The Rams nursed a slim three-point lead when both teams headed to their respective locker rooms at the end of the second quarter.—
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Long before he was spotted in the tunnel bent over to nurse his latest injury, Davis attempted to play through the injury.—
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“Medicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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