Example Sentences

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Nadel sets the cultural stage: “Elvis Presley was on the air, Allen Ginsberg was diagnosing the country, and the ‘sick’ comedy of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters, and Stan Freberg was rising.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

Dean, the Butkus Award-winning linebacker, was diagnosing plays before the snap and chasing down ball carriers from sideline to sideline.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2021

Freud’s greatest accomplishment was diagnosing the essential irrationality of the human mind.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I doubt my psychiatrist felt much ambivalence when he was diagnosing me.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2017

Indeed, I was diagnosing my case, wondering if I loved her, affirming, doubting on a very see-saw of indetermination.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)