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In one instance, an execution was called off after correctional officers had already strapped Glossip to a gurney and begun preparing to give him a lethal injection.—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026 The fan fell in the bottom of the third inning, but play wasn’t stopped until the top of the fourth when the man was removed on a gurney.—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026 Emergency workers dug under concrete slabs that had collapsed and took people away on gurneys.—ABC News, 13 May 2026 One person was being pushed on a gurney while a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue helicopter landed in the area to help, according to the post.—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for gurney
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Etymology
probably ultimately from Gurney cab type of horse-drawn cab with a rear entrance, from J. Theodore Gurney, who patented such a cab in Boston in 1883