the doctor

noun

variants or the doctor's

: the place where a doctor works

I saw her at the doctor's last week.

How long will you be at the doctor?

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There will be people who got sick but not sick enough to go to the doctor, so they were never tested. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024 And then earlier this month, the doctor was hit with 17 new felony charges of allegedly videotaping himself molesting a 6-year-old child on at least six occasions in 2023 and this year. —

Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 The drama is exactly what the doctor ordered for Nascar, as the championship battle heats up. —

Joseph Wolkin, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 In therapy, the doctor says Grotesquerie is an amalgamation of all of the evils that have happened in the world in [her] mind, but then these crimes start to happen literally. —

Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the doctor