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Noun
Israel has continued to hammer Gaza with airstrikes, which medics in the territory say killed about 64 people and injured dozens overnight and into Friday morning.—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024 World & Nation In their own voices, Israelis and Palestinians reflect on a catastrophic year
Oct. 7, 2024
Magen David Adom, Israel’s main emergency medical organization, said its medics confirmed the deaths of a 30-year-old man and 60-year-old woman in a suburb of the northern city of Haifa.—Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 The cop, who just arrived in town and was viciously ambushed and watched the ambulance medics die horrifically, is understandably shooting at the monsters who are trying to kill her and a stray bullet goes into the house and hits said extra in the stomach.—Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 We were frozen in fear hearing the same words that were shouted in the seconds after Trump's assassination attempt, as people were shouting for a medic to take care of Comperatore.—Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for medic
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English medike, from Latin medica, from Greek mēdikē, from feminine of mēdikos of Media, from Mēdia Media
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