Example Sentences

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She worked a steady stream of surgeries including hernia repairs and colostomies this week.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020

“I felt deeply ashamed of that,” said Dr. Marie Crandall, a former trauma surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, remembering shooting victims whose colostomies she was unauthorized to reverse.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2016