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a medical professional studying diseases and especially one who examines bodies to find out the cause of death
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Recent Examples of pathologists
Its national accreditations limit how many autopsies each of those pathologists can do — a rule that’s designed to help keep the doctors from being overworked and error-prone but causes backlogs when there’s too much demand.
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Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025
According to Suffolk County police, forensic pathologists completed Nolan's autopsy a day later.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Early detection matters because therapies, school accommodations, and interventions -- often involving speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and developmental pediatricians -- are most effective when started early in life, Lord explained.
—Dr. Christian S. Monsalve, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2025
Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025
According to Suffolk County police, forensic pathologists completed Nolan's autopsy a day later.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Early detection matters because therapies, school accommodations, and interventions -- often involving speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and developmental pediatricians -- are most effective when started early in life, Lord explained.
—Dr. Christian S. Monsalve, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathologists
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Founded by a pair of physicians, it was developed to grow plants that could be used to treat diseases, referred to as physic garden.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In fiscal year 2024, the Conrad 30 program filled 1,010 positions for physicians across the country, according to 3RNET.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Sep. 2025
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But what doctors have recently uncovered is that dropping estrogen levels around this period might also spell trouble for women’s brain health.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
15 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement Now, in The Pitt, his character is mentoring other young doctors—so much so that the estate of ER creator Michael Crichton has called The Pitt an ER-spinoff.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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The second officer was able to apply a tourniquet to the male victim before medics arrived.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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Search and Rescue members with Heber/Overgaard medics were then able to reach Johnson.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The hospital chief digital officer who piloted an AI chatbot and now gets hugs from clinicians in the hallway.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Standard intubation tools require clinicians to lift this flap using a rigid metal laryngoscope.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If so, optometrists and ophthalmologists could help flag individuals at risk decades before cognitive symptoms appear.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Aug. 2025
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To close that gap, in 1994 the CDC launched the Vaccines for Children program, which provides vaccines at no cost to pediatricians and clinics serving families who couldn’t otherwise afford them.—
Jeffrey Kopp,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Parents will be especially alarmed and this will place terrible burdens on pediatricians who will need to assuage their worries in order to provide important protections against serious and sometimes fatal diseases.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Projects coming out of the pod deals will likely be produced in Spain and/or use Secuoya’s sizable infrastructure, but the movies, docs, and series will be destined for the international markets.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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The onboarding docs were frequently incorrect or outdated.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Pathologists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathologists. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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