Addison [ ad -uh -suh n ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈæd ə sən / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Joseph, 1672–1719, English essayist and poet.
Thomas, 1793–1860, English physician.
a town in NE Illinois.
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How to use Addison in a sentence Shortly after her husband, Martin, a speech pathologist, died of covid early in the pandemic last year, her daughter stopped eating and began screaming at odd times, like when Addison would touch the night light.
Addison is desperate to protect her two young children from those outcomes.
San Diego, which had earned just one Michelin star, for Addison , when the inaugural guide was released in 2019, fared better this year.
Although there are no federally approved drugs for POTS or CFS, experienced physicians use a variety of medicines including fludrocortisone, commonly prescribed for Addison ’s disease, that can improve symptoms.
In west suburban Addison , school social worker Maria Sinkule has been calling on district officials to share data about community and school transmission.
Addison was allowed out of jail, finally, but her passport was held pending an investigation—even though nobody questioned her.
This will give you a taste of the frustrations Addison is facing.
“Dr. Addison has shown strength and resiliency during an extremely difficult time,” an embassy spokesperson tells me.
Addison spent four nights in jail, she told me on FaceTime during a period when she was out on her own recognizance.
But, still, week after week, Addison lived in a Dili hostel waiting for the rusty wheels of Timorese justice to set her free.
Mr. Addison , whose abilities no man can doubt, was from diffidence totally unable to speak in the house.
Whatever his own personal blunders, it was impossible for Joseph Addison to err in a point of literary judgment.
We allude to that more benevolent code of morality inaugurated by Joseph Addison .
Addison 's "Cato" was to be spouted in public by the schoolchildren.
Addison we know to have been a little on the hither side of open-handedness.
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British Dictionary definitions for Addison
noun
Joseph. 1672–1719, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator (1711–14) and contributed most of its essays, including the de Coverley Papers
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Medical definitions for Addison
English physician who first described (1849) Addison's disease and Addison's anemia.
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