How to Use doctor in a Sentence
- How long will you be at the doctor?
- I saw her at the doctor's last week.
- He needed medicine but refused to go to a doctor.
- Most of the faculty members at this college are doctors in their fields.
- She was under doctor's orders not to return to work.
- Dr. Smith, can you explain the exam requirements again?
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For the first time, Teske felt like a doctor had all the time in the world.
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Sadia Rafiquddin,
STAT,
31 Aug. 2023
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Broadus, the youngest of the famed rapper’s four children, did not reveal what her doctors told her about the cause of the stroke.
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Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2024
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As doctors and nurses flooded in, the screen faded to black.
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Adrianna Freedman,
Good Housekeeping,
18 June 2023
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Her son and son-in-law, an emergency-room doctor, crouched at his side.
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Lisa Sanders, M.d.,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2024
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In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
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WIRED,
23 Oct. 2023
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But this time the state has vowed to use part of it to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients.
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Adam Beam,
Fortune,
21 Mar. 2024
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Looking ahead, the podcaster and author’s doctors have told her to rest for five to six weeks.
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Peoplemag,
12 July 2023
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If neither of those tips works, speak with a doctor to determine what to do next.
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Maggie O'Neill,
Health,
31 Jan. 2024
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Other doctors did not want to discuss such painful trade-offs.
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Adam Rasgon,
The New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2023
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But a Sharp Grossmont doctor pronounced him dead over the phone around 8:15 a.m. after consulting with the medics at the scene.
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Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2024
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As a result, doctors are having to think hard about when and whether to start treatment with a drug in short supply.
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Samanth Subramanian,
Quartz,
13 Apr. 2024
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That player is pulled off the field, and a doctor conducts an assessment.
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Jeffrey Tomik,
Washington Post,
2 Apr. 2024
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He was cleared by doctors to resume practice on Nov. 30.
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Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Dec. 2023
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So the more a doctor or surgery center charges, the more consumers typically pay.
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Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
24 May 2023
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The freshman guard was cleared by doctors to return to basketball at the end of November.
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Rishikesh Rajagopalan,
CBS News,
10 Dec. 2023
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Lots of recreation areas and a high ratio of doctors' offices to people make this place a haven for retirees.
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Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2024
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A day after the close friends’ release, safe in the arms of family and doctors, Hila was still whispering to Emily.
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Isabel Coles,
WSJ,
28 Nov. 2023
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Kling wanted to be induced and deliver her third child with her doctor in Black River Falls.
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Jessica Van Egeren,
Journal Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2024
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While people in jail get billed $25 for being booked and $15 per doctor’s visit, many low-income inmates don’t pay.
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Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2024
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Also, finding the right dose for ingesting pumpkin seed oil may require a trip to your doctor.
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Tatjana Freund,
ELLE,
27 July 2023
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For rape, if the rape is reported to law enforcement or to a public health agency or doctor within 45 days.
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USA TODAY,
12 July 2023
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To treat syncope, doctors could replace or remove genes related to the vagus nerve, per NBC News.
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Margaret Osborne,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Nov. 2023
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If you were exposed to measles, contact your doctor for guidance, which may include getting the MMR vaccine.
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Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2024
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To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound.
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Eliza Griswold,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2024
- He had time to doctor his wounds.
- I think somebody doctored the punch.
- She doctored the sick child until the physician arrived.
- They were accused of doctoring the company's financial records.
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This strikes me as a good sauce to doctor up with some meat or sausage.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2021
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Mat-Su has twice the number of patients to doctor ratio then the rest of Alaska or the rest of the U.S.
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Anchorage Daily News,
3 Oct. 2020
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Fields offers more than a dozen ways to doctor up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix.
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Nicole Hvidsten,
Star Tribune,
20 Jan. 2021
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Byrum denied that happened and proved to Gran that the photo was doctored.
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Tom Green | [email protected],
al,
30 Sep. 2019
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To be clear, the video was not doctored in the sense that it was digitally altered.
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Robert Farley,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2020
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The siblings made sure their dad, and later their mom, didn’t go alone to doctor visits.
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Dallas News,
18 May 2022
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Bijan Stephen has two more experts to say that yes, the Acosta video was doctored.
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Casey Newton,
The Verge,
10 Nov. 2018
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So do your homework: Read the reviews (but keep in mind that they, too, can be doctored or deleted).
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Abha Bhattarai,
Washington Post,
24 Dec. 2019
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Between each loop, runners will eat, doctor their feet, maybe steal a quick nap.
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David G. Allan,
CNN,
26 May 2018
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The video was doctored so the victim had a CNN logo imposed over his head and was also edited to add sound.
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Dalvin Brown,
USA TODAY,
27 June 2019
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The search is on by major league umpires for sticky stuff that pitchers might use to doctor baseballs.
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Stephen Hawkins,
ajc,
21 June 2021
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In light of the Astros’ mess, the milder forms of cheating — such as pitchers doctoring the ball — sound pretty tame.
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Bruce Jenkins,
SFChronicle.com,
21 Feb. 2020
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Try doctoring old scrapes with both estrus and tarsal as a challenge to other bucks.
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Michael Hanback,
Outdoor Life,
4 Dec. 2019
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For the mayonnaise, try doctoring up your favorite brand with the recipes below.
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Ann Maloney,
nola.com,
5 June 2019
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His chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, doctored an email to convince an agency ethics lawyer to approve a $4,300 flight for Shulkin's wife, the report found.
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David S. Cloud,
latimes.com,
16 Mar. 2018
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The poster doctored an image from an epic motorcycle ride in the Bond flick to replace Brosnan’s face with Todt’s, while Yeoh appears on the back of the bike.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN,
31 July 2023
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Nichols doctored bank records to hide the nature of her purchases, officials say.
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Sarah Hager,
Cincinnati.com,
30 Oct. 2019
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Almost anything can be doctored with a little — or a lot — of heat, depending on your taste.
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Becky Krystal,
The Seattle Times,
4 Sep. 2018
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Arellano quit her job and spends her days taking the baby to doctor’s appointments, meetings with DCFS and on walks in her stroller.
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Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
20 June 2019
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Sometimes there’s nothing to doctor, but the placebo effect of a Band-Aid cannot be overstated.
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Rachel Walker,
Outside Online,
22 Apr. 2019
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Mom doctored us up with pineapple juice for scratchy throats and sinus infections.
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Rita Nader Heikenfeld,
The Enquirer,
12 Jan. 2024
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Afghan officials doctored photos of the meeting to suggest that it had been held in Kabul instead of Bagram, which is about 12 miles away.
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Gardiner Harris,
New York Times,
9 July 2018
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There also was evidence that the company produced videos of its trucks that were doctored to hide their flaws.
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Larry Neumeister,
Fortune,
18 Dec. 2023
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A number of emails from Francis that were used in the case were also doctored, a motion filed by the defense attorneys alleged.
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María Luisa Paúl,
Washington Post,
7 Sep. 2023
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If, in fact, the image of the princess with her kids was doctored or manipulated, the irony of the situation could be hard to shake off as it was meant to resist rumors.
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Prarthana Prakash,
Fortune Europe,
11 Mar. 2024
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The image has a range of clear visual inconsistencies that suggest it was doctored.
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Mark Landler,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2024
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