How to Use pathology in a Sentence

pathology

noun
  • As ever, the plot hinges on such pathologies.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • One speech from an alum wasn’t going to change the place or its pathologies.
    — Jason Zengerle, Town & Country, 16 Oct. 2018
  • There are some out-and-out brain pathologies that lead to violence.
    — Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
  • Against the odds, the pathology came back benign.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • What does my pathology report tell us?
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026
  • But social media is rife with pathologies for protest movements as well.
    — Marc Lynch, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • And that, again, points to how this is about a broader social pathology.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • There are people who could benefit from these drugs who don’t have pathologies.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • The pathologies of the housing market are one reason.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The results from the forensic and pathology tests could take between one to four months.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Results from the full pathology test will be available in the comings weeks.
    — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The whole thing is clear evidence of the depth of human pathology.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Trust me, no Asian parents want their kids to go to med school to go into pathology.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Marnie’s a do-it-all martyr, while Hannah is hands-off to the point of pathology.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Officials said a full pathology report will be done in the coming weeks.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The results from the forensic and pathology tests could take anywhere between one to four months to come back.
    — Bryan Llenas, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • My dad, a doctor, and my mom, a scientist, asked to see the pathology report.
    — Norah O'Donnell, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2017
  • But the oncologist said, there was bad news on the pathology report.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The pathology view of autism is also now held by top autism officials in the government.
    — David Rivera, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The most basic is that the pathology long predates Trump’s election.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Fair enough—but the rule, written for football’s pathologies, sweeps in a sport that already polices itself.
    — Daryl G. Jones, Sportico.com, 15 May 2026
  • My perception of the sound or the wheel pathology had no bearing on what Leonel was going to do.
    — Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • But growth that outpaces a system’s ability to absorb it is a form of pathology.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Boot is more alert to the pathologies of ideology than to those of the establishment.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, the occasional bout of success is a key symptom of the pathology.
    — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • At the Games, suffering isn’t a sign of some pathology but a path to transcendence.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • So the pathology report that finally put a name on the disease was something of a relief.
    — Beth Kassab, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2018
  • Blumenthal has seen patterns of pathology emerge over the course of the pandemic.
    — 1843, 26 June 2020
  • The kitchen was not just the place of instruction in food, but also in biology and pathology.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Magic and pathology and some of the inherent magic that is within the sport itself.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019

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