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a substance that is used to kill harmful bacteria and to cure infections
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Recent Examples of antibiotic
Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Feb. 2025
She was sent home with medication, including antibiotics — but later that evening, her condition deteriorated, her family tells South West News Service via The Daily Mail.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
Experts who serve on outside advisory panels on a range of topics, from antibiotic resistance to deafness, received emails on Wednesday telling them their meetings had been canceled.
—Teddy Rosenbluth, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Each helicopter is loaded with cardboard boxes with anesthesia, antibiotics, other essential medicines, disposable diapers and infant formula, Arraf says.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Feb. 2025
She was sent home with medication, including antibiotics — but later that evening, her condition deteriorated, her family tells South West News Service via The Daily Mail.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Adding the extract improved efficacy from 2 to 32-fold, depending on the antibiotic and target.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
Experts who serve on outside advisory panels on a range of topics, from antibiotic resistance to deafness, received emails on Wednesday telling them their meetings had been canceled.
—Teddy Rosenbluth, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antibiotic
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Cartels will only be put out of business by legalizing drugs and immigration, not by declaring war on them.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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My heart hurts losing another friend 2 the throws of drug addiction & the insane fentanyl crisis thats taken over our country!—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For instance, several strains of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa infect humans and have evolved to resist many of our antibacterial treatments.—
Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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The main ingredient that supports these claims is apple cider vinegar thanks to its antibacterial, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties.—
Celeste Polanco,
Essence,
28 Jan. 2025
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Amgen: Cramer praised the pharmaceutical giant’s drug portfolio, including its cholesterol medicine and cancer treatments.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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No other blood medicine is so certain in its results as Ayers’s Sarsaparilla.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Standard treatments, while often effective, can be destructive for people with decades of life ahead of them, potentially leading to life-altering physical changes, like permanently needing a colostomy bag or enduring early menopause and infertility.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
13 Feb. 2025
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Her research studies behavioral ethics, workplace exclusion, and destructive and conflictive work behavior and relationships.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
11 Feb. 2025
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Organizations like Lopez’s help those with the disease access antiretroviral medications needed to reduce the risk of transmission, and give them a chance at a long, healthy life.—
Hira Humayun,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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His lawyers also argued that his longtime use of a medication to treat back pain could result in the pentobarbital used in lethal injections being ineffective or less effective.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Linda Anderson keys in a code and steps out of a room at Mercy Anderson Hospital as an ultraviolet germicidal robot kicks on, lights up and kills sneaky germs that might’ve been skipped over with other disinfecting routines.—
Terry DeMio,
The Enquirer,
28 Aug. 2020
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Some products sold now that claim to be germicidal are actually the wrong wavelength, says Andrea Armani, a chemical engineering and materials scientist at the University of Southern California.—
Jeanne Erdmann,
Discover Magazine,
3 Aug. 2020
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Jurado advises the most reliable approach is to request a magnesium RBC test, which provides a more accurate reflection of your body’s magnesium levels than the more common serum test.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
6 Feb. 2025
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As with moisturizers and night creams, there are tons of face serums to choose from.—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
5 Feb. 2025
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Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images President Donald Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign humanitarian aid and shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development is having devastating consequences globally, several humanitarian nongovernmental organization leaders told ABC News.—
Julia Cherner,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2025
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After seeing the devastating impact of the 1918 pandemic on the nation’s soldiers and sailors, officials prioritized protecting the military from influenza.—
Alexandra M. Lord,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Antibiotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antibiotic. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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