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as in tablet
a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally
you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu
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as in dog
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
she can be such a pill when things don't go her way
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Recent Examples of pill
Illicit fentanyl is typically found in powder form or pressed into counterfeit pills that look like prescription opioids.
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Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Trial participants that took two pills lost even more weight, 13.1% at three months.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2025
Investigators noticed some contents resembled MDMA pills in size and shape.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
To combat this ongoing crisis, the Biden administration focused on dismantling the cartels' complex global operations, which include pill pressers, transporters, and money launderers, in an effort to stem the flow of fentanyl into the country.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
Trial participants that took two pills lost even more weight, 13.1% at three months.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2025
Investigators noticed some contents resembled MDMA pills in size and shape.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
To combat this ongoing crisis, the Biden administration focused on dismantling the cartels' complex global operations, which include pill pressers, transporters, and money launderers, in an effort to stem the flow of fentanyl into the country.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pill
Noun
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Don’t jarringly, full-on recline, thereby banging into knees, knocking over tablets, or spilling drinks.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE is ideal for anyone looking for a versatile and affordable tablet or anyone who wants a hassle-free, do-it-all device.—
Shubham Yewale,
PCMAG,
24 Feb. 2025
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According to LifeLine, the DeKalb shelter takes in 135 dogs a week on average.—
Jim Gaines,
ajc,
13 Sep. 2023
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The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Sep. 2023
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For this trip, the crew capsule was spun up to 11 revolutions per minute, as opposed to the typical half-revolution per minute.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
7 Feb. 2025
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The capsule will carry four payloads on this mission, including a radiation detector from the German space agency DLR and a new bioreactor from the U.K. company Frontier Space.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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With that put to bed, our attention turns back to the husbands, and all the new rumors from this season, like Lisa bringing up Shawn’s name in regards to circle jerks.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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Diagnosed first with Jeavons syndrome in 2018/19—a rare form of epilepsy characterized by absence seizures and eyelid jerks—a 1,000-gene epilepsy panel in 2020 revealed further health problems.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
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While the aforementioned gamer creep threatens to rob us of silly confrontational television, there’s been one thing stopping them and making season three entertaining: The Traitors picked this season are dysfunctional clowns.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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There was a good joke buried in that conceit: maybe only clowns spend as much time in the makeup chair as the drag artists that have provided Roan the inspiration for her primary look.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Medium-sized animals like skunks, bobcats and foxes also did not vanish.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Bats and skunks are common transmitters of the disease.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2024
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This lucky gambler had an 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king and a joker.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacramento Bee,
20 Jan. 2025
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Variations of the game include the mahjong card in America, which is used for scoring, and eight joker tiles; in Singapore, the game is played with four extra tiles, which are decorated with animals.—
Claire Turrell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Animals like birds, monitor lizards, snakes, and monkeys are seen throughout.—
Jim Halterman,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
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As ever, alongside the snakes, there are monkeys are, and the episode ends with Timothy Ratliff pondering his legal troubles.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pill. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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