noun
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a device for breathing in therapeutic vapours through the nose or mouth, esp one for relieving nasal congestion or asthma
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a person who inhales
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Origin of inhaler
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"For example, when your child is sick, you need to plug in an inhaler, and it can't run on batteries."
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
GSK is donating six-months’ supply of a respiratory inhaler, and Bristol-Myers will donate six-months’ worth of the blood thinner Eliquis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
She was also a severe asthmatic, always followed by a "frightened minion carrying her asthma inhaler, as though it were a crown, or a sceptre of some sort".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
I have asthma and came back inside wanting an inhaler after three minutes in whatever you’d call that mixture of smog, smoke, and air.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2025
By one hand was her inhaler, in the other her rosary beads.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Common medications they buy include insulin, inhalers, and diabetes drugs, as well as those for mental health and thyroid conditions, Hayden says.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Zielinski said he currently has more than six months’ worth of the bone tablets and “probably a 10-year supply” of inhalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
For their rollout, Amazon Pharmacy kiosks will offer a range of medications including antibiotics, inhalers and blood-pressure medication.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
If such an attack - involving difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing and chest tightness - cannot be controlled with regular inhalers then doctors currently prescribe a course of steroids.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
She told us not to use the inhalers, then walked into the box of light at the end of the hallway and disappeared.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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