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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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Another way to address the anxiety and stress that some women may experience is to lean on friends, both in person and virtually, who are going through this life change.
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Katia Hetter, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
The idea of taking a literal chill pill to transform your health is everywhere right now.
—Jessie Van Amburg, SELF, 29 Oct. 2024
Also, for other options, there are birth control pills and IUDs that do not have hormones and do not have the same breast cancer risk.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024
The numbers do not account for pills obtained from outside the medical system in the earlier period, when those prescriptions most often came from abroad.
—Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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Katia Hetter, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
The idea of taking a literal chill pill to transform your health is everywhere right now.
—Jessie Van Amburg, SELF, 29 Oct. 2024
Also, for other options, there are birth control pills and IUDs that do not have hormones and do not have the same breast cancer risk.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024
The numbers do not account for pills obtained from outside the medical system in the earlier period, when those prescriptions most often came from abroad.
—Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
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For every five plates finished, a short anime or game plays on the tablet screen at the table; and a prize is dispensed from a machine triggered by every 15th plate placed in a tableside disposal slot.Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2024
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Chan, a mathematics student based in Australia at the time, said he was frustrated by the lack of a good handwriting app on the tablet.Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 2 Nov. 2024
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Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.cleveland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
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Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
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The company is weighing options for the future of its troubled Starliner space capsule program as part of the review, Bloomberg News has reported.Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
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Flocks of Doves constantly circling and scanning the globe could detect wildfires threatening Amazon forests, ships crisscrossing the seas to feed the world, and rocket cosmodromes set to launch capsules to the ISS.Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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At that moment, the gondola pulled into the refuge of the mountain station with a sudden jerk.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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With a bigger budget and a wilder premise (Ash is now stuck in medieval times), this film re-centers our hero as a quip-spouting action hero jerk with a heart of gold.EW.com, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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Seconds later, the clown pulled out a gun and shot Warren in the mouth at point blank range.KC Baker, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the last movie — killer makeup effects and a great performance buried in a repetitive flick with a story that’s impossible to care about — but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular franchise.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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The county also confirmed the disease in eight skunks, two raccoons, two foxes and a dog, who also bit a person.Brooke Park, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Goetz also calls out juniper and boxwood foliage for notoriously smelling like cat urine, hawthorn tree flowers for smelling like carrion, and the flashy flowers of crown fritillaria (Fritillaria imperialis) bulbs for mimicking a skunk.Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
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Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22) Playing practical joker?USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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These psychological and professional maneuverings are, from the start, shuffled madly by a joker in the deck, whose introduction to the story is a mark of Bodet’s cinematographic and comedic inspiration.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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His Instagram page, which boasted 645,000 followers, was filled with photos of close encounters with giant crocodiles and deadly snakes.Lawrence Yee, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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The animals most affected included large lizards like land mullets and eastern water dragons and snakes like the red-bellied blacksnake.Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pill. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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