clinical

as in professional
having or showing a lack of emotion or interest She spoke to the patient's family in a clinical tone.

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Recent Examples of clinical With a summer opening, clinical staffing counts are still being evaluated two weeks before the approximately 4,100 students and 625 staff members reconvene. Nathan Ansell, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2025 Radford is exploring ways that future deep penetrating optical brain imaging can be applied in clinical and medical settings, particularly to help quantify brain health. IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2025 While informative, mice differ from humans in terms of bone physiology, so translation to clinical settings requires caution. New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2025 Diagnosis for the condition typically requires imaging (MRI) signals and a specific clinical presentation. Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for clinical
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professional
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  • Ron Wood has been a professional journalist in Arkansas for about 40 years.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Many health care professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, KFF and the American Psychological Association, say criminalizing gender-affirming care causes greater harm to transgender youths' mental well-being.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Clinical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinical. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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