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Recent Examples of palliative
Tom Chiodo, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Signature Healthcare at Home provides home, hospice and palliative care in Oregon and Washington.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 Feb. 2025
Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
This shift to at-home care should benefit UnitedHealth Group, which owns primary, hospice, palliative, and at-home care providers and enablers including Optum, LHC Group, Landmark, Summit Home Care, and NaviHealth.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
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Adjective
Humane trains residents to serve as hospice and palliative caregivers and grief companions to their aging and dying peers.
—Tom Chiodo, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Signature Healthcare at Home provides home, hospice and palliative care in Oregon and Washington.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
Paper palliatives will not address the world’s present emergencies.
—Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
This shift to at-home care should benefit UnitedHealth Group, which owns primary, hospice, palliative, and at-home care providers and enablers including Optum, LHC Group, Landmark, Summit Home Care, and NaviHealth.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palliative
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Interestingly, this shifting debate over how cognition influences culture coincides with a spate of research bridging psychology and anthropology, which explores why certain behaviors – such as singing lullabies, curative bloodletting and storytelling – recur across human cultures.—
Eli Elster,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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The principal action kicks off when Odell’s family discovers the curative properties of the unicorn and immediately concoct ways to monetize it.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Mar. 2025
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After the arrest, a search of the apartment uncovered about 22,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills, 10,000 methamphetamine pills and over 13 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as four pounds of xylazine, a veterinary sedative found in about 30 percent of overdose deaths in the city.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Super Bowl reporter found dead had sedative in his system, police say Wife of powerful cartel boss wanted by U.S. is released from prison In: New Mexico Death Gene Hackman Alex Sundby Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
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New Uses for Old Drugs: Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.—
Eli Tan,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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India is a global leader in generic drug manufacturing, supplying a significant portion of the world’s vaccines and medicines.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Eating healthy helps too, so access to Georgia’s training table during the past few years has been beneficial.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Timing your first cup of coffee correctly could be beneficial, some experts say.—
Erin Hooker,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Mar. 2025
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Schwarzenegger also showed off cuddle pillows and a security blanket personalized with her kids’ names — both made by Comfort Silkie.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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Now, though, President Trump’s decisions to drop support for Ukraine, pull back America’s traditional security blanket in Europe and pressure allies to spend more on defense have forced the continent to rapidly rethink its security architecture.—
Aurelien Breeden,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That includes a short spa workshop that teaches guests how to create a pain-relieving balm.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The investigation was reopened in 2009, and Woods tested the lip balm tub for DNA in 2011.—
Shelly Bradbury,
The Denver Post,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Ben Moore faces an active bench warrant after being inadvertently released from jail prematurely last year while serving time for a remedial contempt charge in his divorce case.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Aside from a remedial story that wouldn’t impress anyone over the age of 15, a big issue that permeated God of War, as well as several of its sequels and prequels, was its treatment of women.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2025
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Tove wore a pair of pale pink shorts and a white T-shirt, while her pacifier lay next to her stomach.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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If Love Is Blind insists on continuing to cast babies, the decent thing to do is give them a pacifier.—
Nic Juarez,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Palliative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palliative. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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