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as in tablet
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu
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as in dog
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
she can be such a pill when things don't go her way
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Recent Examples of pill
Even if your life has been plagued by pain, heavy bleeding, fibroids, or endometriosis, among a range of other uterine issues, this statement is still a tough pill to swallow for many women.
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Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 May 2025
Roberts, the band’s founding guitarist, left the band in 2012 and died from an overdose of prescription pills in 2016.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
The 2-year-old swallowed several pills, prosecutors said.
—Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 6 May 2025
The Roadblocks And How To Overcome Them AI isn’t a magic pill that will cure all problems.
—Kunal Khashu, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pill
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How to Take Chlorella and Spirulina Chlorella and spirulina are mainly sold as powder, tablets, extracts, capsules, or flakes.—
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE offers a high-end tablet experience at a more affordable midrange price.—
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Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.—
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Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.—
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The capsule will be available for sale on the Fair Harbor and Rothy’s websites and at the Rothy’s stores beginning Thursday.—
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The whole 1,091-pound landing capsule, once built to fall through the thick, hot atmosphere of Venus, will instead be plummeting through Earth’s atmosphere without a parachute.—
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Trump calls Bruce Springsteen a 'jerk': The president slapped back after the musician voiced criticism at concertNeed a break?—
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Millions of readers follow along for her advice on work quandaries big and small, from dealing with office jerks to quitting a toxic job.—
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In the ‘30s and ‘40s, there were all these clowns trying to sell things, and then there was Krinkles the Clown trying to sell cereal [in the ‘50s].—
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Matthew Davies, 41, was taken into custody on suspicion of assaulting a man with a glass bottle while dressed up as a clown on Oct. 31, 2018, according to a news release issued by the department.—
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That’s a sure way to invite not only raccoons but other unwanted guests such as mice, opossums, and skunks.—
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While pesticides sprayed on crops and the Varroa mite both pose major risks for honey bees, bears and skunks can also be destructive predators to colonies, according to Hesbach.—
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These jokers are still just hanging out and having the same old drinking parties.—
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Thousands of the jihadist jokers had either their private parts or their ears blown off when the Zionist entity set them off last year.—
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Testing their ability to parse through patchy visual information, the puzzles prompted participants to identify ambiguous black-and-white images of objects and of animals, such as snakes, snails, and spiders.—
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The exact location of the den complex are withheld for the snakes' safety, according to Bachhuber.—
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“Pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pill. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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