antibiotics

noun

plural of antibiotic
as in drugs
medical a substance that is used to kill harmful bacteria and to cure infections

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Recent Examples of antibiotics The infection is treatable with antibiotics if caught early, but most treatments involve keeping skin infections from spreading. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 His son developed Bell's palsy, a sudden paralysis on one side of the face, but recovered quickly after a course of oral antibiotics. — Bram Sable-Smith, NPR, 27 June 2026 These could prove fatal because antisepsis therapies, germ theory and antibiotics did not yet exist. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 The parasite is treated with a combination of antibiotics called trimethoprim-sulfa, which is sold under the brand names Bactrim and Septra. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 The pathogen is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Other medications, including certain antibiotics, can increase the skin's sensitivity to the sun. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 July 2026 Although most people recover from Legionnaires' disease with antibiotics, certain patients -- including those who are immunocompromised or who suffer from chronic lung diseases -- can develop complications that can be fatal. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 July 2026 After a positive urine culture, patients without any symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI) usually start unnecessary and potentially harmful antibiotics. — Daniel Morgan, STAT, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antibiotics
  1. drugs
  2. medications
  3. medicines
  4. pharmaceuticals
  5. medicaments
  6. remedies
  7. prescriptions
  8. physics
Noun
  • In fact, the organizers have expressly banned alcohol and drugs from the event – and the attendees wouldn’t have it any other way.
    — Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • According to the affidavit, Butler denied feeling ill or consuming alcohol or drugs before the crash.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of drugs
Noun
  • The astounding results delivered by Daraxonrasib, and likely by a new crop of medications now in development pipelines of pharma companies that work in a similar fashion, suddenly provide a significant opportunity to act.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
  • In response to safety concerns, several medications have been removed from the list eligible for refills, including a drug for irregular heartbeats.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
Definition of medications
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  • In a March letter to the state, 11 board members called for the program to be halted, citing the risks of automatically renewing medicines that can have side effects or drug interactions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Vertex focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of medicines for serious diseases.
    — Justina Lee,Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of medicines
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  • At the same time, many of those new factories in industries ranging from semiconductors and batteries to pharmaceuticals are being built in China with lifetime production costs 30 to 50 percent lower than comparable facilities in advanced economies.
    — Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • This alarming discovery, from the EcoShark Project, highlights how human pharmaceuticals enter marine ecosystems.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of pharmaceuticals
Noun
  • Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 29 May 2026
Definition of medicaments
Noun
  • Many families have their own remedies for treating these pesky bites—but as the old saying goes, prevention is better than the cure.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026
  • Pay close attention when using any weed-killing product, even DIY remedies.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2026
Definition of remedies
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  • The affordability debate also is playing out in Democratic primaries, though, and some of the candidates who emerged victorious offered more scathing critiques of capitalism and more drastic policy prescriptions.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • In particular, low-income beneficiaries are accustomed to paying $5 to $10 for their standard prescriptions, making $50 a major barrier, according to KFF Health News.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of prescriptions
Noun
  • Colliding protons at record-setting energies of almost 14 trillion electron volts (TeV), the LHC became the world’s most powerful collider and redrew the map of experimental particle physics.
    — Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • To maintain eligibility, these systems must successfully execute complex calculations tied to specific physical sciences, focusing heavily on plasma physics, high-energy physics, materials science, and molecular chemistry.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
Definition of physics

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