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as in to rehabilitate
to restore to a healthy condition
a low-fat vegetarian diet, moderate exercise, and stress management help heal a diseased heart heal the sick
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as in to recover
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness
most of the soldiers could go home while they were still healing from their wounds
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as in to cure
to bring about recovery from
time heals all wounds, even those of the heart
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Recent Examples of heal
Had the specialist felt that Okonkwo’s injury was not healing after the cast was taken off on Wednesday night, Wrexham would have had to move into the loan market in January.
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Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Experiments like these expose the potential hidden across our natural world to heal and rejuvenate itself in the face of growing climate change concerns.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Scrapes take longer to heal A lack of vitamin C slows down collagen production—and, in turn, wound healing.
—Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2024
Recovery From Injury: How to Support Rehabilitation Recovery from a hyperextension injury typically starts with the RICE method, which stands for:
Rest allows damaged tissues to heal and prevents exacerbating an existing injury.
—Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2024
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Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Experiments like these expose the potential hidden across our natural world to heal and rejuvenate itself in the face of growing climate change concerns.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Scrapes take longer to heal A lack of vitamin C slows down collagen production—and, in turn, wound healing.
—Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2024
Recovery From Injury: How to Support Rehabilitation Recovery from a hyperextension injury typically starts with the RICE method, which stands for:
Rest allows damaged tissues to heal and prevents exacerbating an existing injury.
—Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heal
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For the educators, that creates an amusing challenge: The Sunny gang isn’t a pack of wayward teenagers waiting for an understanding mentor to show them the light, and their moral failures can’t be rehabilitated with a pep talk.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Auditors also noted the social and educational efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and ready them to re-enter society.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2025
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The reported cause of death was the result of complications suffered while recovering from a surgical procedure Moore had recently underwent.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Meghan McCain slams Meghan Markle's new 'out of touch' TV show: 'Do something to help people instead of your ego' Production delays in an industry still recovering from the 2023 SAG-WGA strikes are only the tip of the iceberg.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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While the plot is as convoluted and silly as in the last film — Dr. Edelmann tries to cure Dracula’s vampirism through blood transfusions, among other developments — there’s slightly more cohesion.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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Cause issues in social situations or functioning at work When To See a Healthcare Provider ADHD isn't a condition that can be or needs to be cured, but medications and strategies can make things easier.—
Rena Goldman,
Health,
16 Jan. 2025
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In essence, when a problem is fixed at a single plant or a solution is optimized in one locality, these learnings can be applied and scaled globally.—
Alexander Clausbruch,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Here was this football life force, spilling his soul during his introductory news conference, talking about kicking in teeth and biting off kneecaps and fixing a team that hadn’t won a thing in 30 years.—
Zak Keefer,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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The new code of conduct, announced to stores Monday, is part of CEO Brian Niccol’s strategy to lure back customers, boost sagging sales and improve worker relations.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Removing medical debt from credit reports On Jan. 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that will remove around $49 billion in medical bills from consumer credit reports, improving the credit score of more than 15 million Americans.—
Chad de Guzman,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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Living underground for extended periods of time requires mental clarity, and these wellness amenities will help alleviate anxiety so that residents can stay physically and mentally strong.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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China has cut policy rates, loosened property purchase restrictions, injected liquidity into the financial market as well as unveiled a debt-swap program to alleviate local governments’ fiscal strains.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2025
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As plans for January premières, luncheons, and awards shows were upended, we were treated to an almost moralistic spectacle of Tinseltown frivolities colliding with the elemental dictates of Mother Nature.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
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Even though young adults’ credit scores often dovetail closely with their parents’ scores, many institutions treat credit scores as personal measures of financial savvy and character.—
Michael Waters,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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The work is less a critique of AA’s methods than a wry commentary on art and art history’s inefficacy in remedying profound societal ills, especially those affecting Indigenous communities.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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To remedy this, the task force's report proposed a tracer study to help understand the movement of sand in erosional areas.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
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