as in case
an individual awaiting or under medical care and treatment
the nurse asked the patient to change into a paper gown
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as in stoic
accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint
you were very patient about having to wait for me for so long
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as in persistent
continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement
a patient effort to finish college despite the mounting debts
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Recent Examples of patient
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The injectable treatments have exploded in popularity due to the potentially life-changing weight loss that some patients experience.
—Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
These tests aim to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Duties include evaluating, diagnosing and treating of patients at various levels of care, and participating in program development and evaluation; clinical research; professional training and consultation.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The injectable treatments have exploded in popularity due to the potentially life-changing weight loss that some patients experience.
—Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
In a Thursday post on Truth Social, Trump seemingly compared the economy to a patient healing after an operation.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
These tests aim to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patient
Noun
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Again, this is a case of humans using AI to persuade people to adopt their views rather than an indication that AI is extreme or prone to suggesting extreme ideas and behaviors.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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In it, Blanche outlines a decentralized approach in which U.S. attorney’s offices will now take the lead on digital asset cases, focusing primarily on crimes involving terrorism.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And finally… Win as a team, lose as a team, or so the saying goes, but stoic camaraderie is asking a lot of Real Valladolid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Both fascinating and infuriating, Henry Fonda for President, by Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath, examines the dark-browed, blue-eyed stoic Hollywood actor Henry Fonda as more politically significant than his infamously radical daughter, Jane.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With persistent inflation and President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs that could further hike prices, pocketbook issues are likely to remain a central campaign theme for the 2026 midterm elections.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Apr. 2025
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The changes come after a tumultuous March and first quarter for investors, which struggled to navigate rising trade tensions and persistent inflation.—
Hakyung Kim,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Once identified, the kit dynamically loads a counterfeit login page tailored to that provider, often with the victim’s email address already filled in.—
Alex Vakulov,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Preliminary investigation indicates there was an incident between people in the parking lot just before the victim was shot.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In this framing, children are not autonomous individuals worthy of respect, but future standard-bearers of their parents’ values—which means that the greatest sign of a mother’s success is producing obedient children.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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His oxygen tank sat at his knees like an obedient mastiff.—
Brandon Taylor,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Marsh was insistent there was still more to unlock in Vandersloot — even at 36, even in Year 15 in the league.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images 2015 [Zoe] Saldaña reveals that her husband was insistent on taking her last name, which their kids also share.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Things like passive solar (using our southern exposure windows and glass doors for heat gain in the winter), and having overhangs on the southern, east and west elevations that shade the heat gain in the summer.—
Rob Lewallen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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One of the potential innovations would be the installation of passive Z-gates.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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In China, for example, the constitution states that everything in the governmental system, including the courts, is subordinate to the leadership of the Communist Party.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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The email was addressed to all subordinate commanders, and the subject line read in all capital letters: URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
15 Nov. 2024
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“Patient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patient. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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