How to Use pathology in a Sentence

pathology

noun
  • One speech from an alum wasn’t going to change the place or its pathologies.
    Jason Zengerle, Town & Country, 16 Oct. 2018
  • R.U. Sirius: Most — or maybe all — of the symptoms of present shock are viewed as pathologies.
    R.u. Sirius, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2013
  • The point is this: Trump is back, and so, after only just a few days, are all of his pathologies.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Marnie’s a do-it-all martyr, while Hannah is hands-off to the point of pathology.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017
  • There are some out-and-out brain pathologies that lead to violence.
    Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
  • The lack of commitment to the truth is a chronic pathology.
    Reuters, The Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The pathologies might be unequal, but neither side is well.
    T.a. Frank, The Hive, 20 June 2017
  • The whole thing is clear evidence of the depth of human pathology.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And that, again, points to how this is about a broader social pathology.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The cost of a self-screen will be the same as the pelvic exam, Andrews said, because the sample is sent to a lab, which charges for their pathology.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • Results from the full pathology test will be available in the comings weeks.
    Anna Beahm, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The point is that NFL players are losing their friends and their minds to the pathology of a disease that robs them of a life worth living.
    Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • My perception of the sound or the wheel pathology had no bearing on what Leonel was going to do.
    Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • But the lies were always a symptom of a deeper pathology.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Media used the term pathology to describe her life, too.
    Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • At the Games, suffering isn’t a sign of some pathology but a path to transcendence.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Boot is more alert to the pathologies of ideology than to those of the establishment.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The most basic is that the pathology long predates Trump’s election.
    Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • My dad, a doctor, and my mom, a scientist, asked to see the pathology report.
    Nora O'Donnell, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2017
  • My dad, a doctor, and my mom, a scientist, asked to see the pathology report.
    Norah O'Donnell, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2017
  • Post from a doctor who worked on coronaviruses as a prof of pathology at UC San Diego in the 70s….
    cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, the occasional bout of success is a key symptom of the pathology.
    Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • No trace of the tumor was found in pathology testing of the tissue that had been removed, Zimmer’s suit says.
    oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2020
  • A few days before the start of the school year, positions in speech language pathology and math were still unfilled.
    Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • There are people who could benefit from these drugs who don’t have pathologies.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • But social media is rife with pathologies for protest movements as well.
    Marc Lynch, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • But those same pathologies did not take over the 2024 presidential election.
    Ross Barkan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • As the population ages, more patients need surgery for spinal pathology.
    Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

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