Example Sentences

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A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Roughly 3.5 million adults have diagnosed diabetes in California, according to the American Diabetes Assn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

Dr Singh said that if Dylan had been referred to a surgeon that night, a surgeon would have diagnosed appendicitis and kept him in hospital.

From BBC • May 23, 2024

Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2024

Any budding medico who understood the pre-eminence enjoyed by aq. ad in a prescription, would have diagnosed him as a first-rate subject for apoplexy.

From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis