How to Use pathology in a Sentence

pathology

noun
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  • One speech from an alum wasn’t going to change the place or its pathologies.
    — Jason Zengerle, Town & Country, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The lack of commitment to the truth is a chronic pathology.
    — Reuters, The Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The whole thing is clear evidence of the depth of human pathology.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And that, again, points to how this is about a broader social pathology.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The cost of a self-screen will be the same as the pelvic exam, Andrews said, because the sample is sent to a lab, which charges for their pathology.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • My perception of the sound or the wheel pathology had no bearing on what Leonel was going to do.
    — Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • Media used the term pathology to describe her life, too.
    — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • At the Games, suffering isn’t a sign of some pathology but a path to transcendence.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Boot is more alert to the pathologies of ideology than to those of the establishment.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The most basic is that the pathology long predates Trump’s election.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Post from a doctor who worked on coronaviruses as a prof of pathology at UC San Diego in the 70s….
    — cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, the occasional bout of success is a key symptom of the pathology.
    — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • No trace of the tumor was found in pathology testing of the tissue that had been removed, Zimmer’s suit says.
    — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2020
  • A few days before the start of the school year, positions in speech language pathology and math were still unfilled.
    — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • There are people who could benefit from these drugs who don’t have pathologies.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • And its pathologies have been worsened by the belief that if anything goes wrong, the government will cover the losses.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • To prepare the cell sample for the pathology lab, your provider will either spread the sample onto a slide or preserve it in a liquid.
    — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • So the pathology report that finally put a name on the disease was something of a relief.
    — Beth Kassab, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2018
  • Officials said a full pathology report will be done in the coming weeks.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Blumenthal has seen patterns of pathology emerge over the course of the pandemic.
    — 1843, 26 June 2020
  • Magic and pathology and some of the inherent magic that is within the sport itself.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The pathology center had just a handful of working scanners.
    — James Bandler, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The moral stakes are clear, said Dr. Weldon Sanford, the current chief of pathology at the hospital, and require action.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But the weight of a growing baby and the cultural baggage of Black pathology was getting heavier.
    — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The week after, Meredith and I met with one of the surgeons to go over the pathology report analyzing my breast tissue.
    — Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Of note, the participants had to have the presence of amyloid beta pathology.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That’s thanks to a host of upcoming changes, including an ever-aging population and climate change, which can cause an increase of existing pathologies, such as acne and eczema, and a rise of new ones.
    — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Lopez failed to fully remove her dead fetus in 2002, ignoring a pathology report, according to the Florida Health Department.
    — Holly Baltz, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024

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