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Recent Examples of dilation
Asa has been back and forth from the hospital from November 2023 to this day, undergoing a procedure that stretches his esophagus to make swallowing easier, called esophageal dilation.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
The Chiefs’ leader will have celebrated his 30th birthday when Arrowhead rolls out the red-and-gold carpet for Jayden Daniels & Co., but given the weird dilation of post-COVID time and the Chiefs’ watery ubiquity, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mahomes went to high school with Sid Luckman.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
How to create the illusion of dilation by carefully layering light and dark pigment.
—Gregory Barber Sasha Arutyunova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Cervical dilation: During orgasm, the opening to the cervix dilates.
—Kelly Burch Updated, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025
The Chiefs’ leader will have celebrated his 30th birthday when Arrowhead rolls out the red-and-gold carpet for Jayden Daniels & Co., but given the weird dilation of post-COVID time and the Chiefs’ watery ubiquity, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mahomes went to high school with Sid Luckman.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
How to create the illusion of dilation by carefully layering light and dark pigment.
—Gregory Barber Sasha Arutyunova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Cervical dilation: During orgasm, the opening to the cervix dilates.
—Kelly Burch Updated, Verywell Health, 25 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilation
Noun
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There are also multiple bills targeting pharmacy benefit managers, the middleman of the prescription drug dispersion industry.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
3 July 2025
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By integrating all relevant data into one place, response times are optimized and the dispersion of information across multiple platforms is avoided.—
Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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He and the first lady were cheered upon their arrival at MetLife Stadium, but when he was shown on the video screens during the pre-game national anthem, Trump received a scattering of boos.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
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Onlookers helped gather the scattering sheets for him and stuffed them, disheveled, back into the folder.—
John Carlisle,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
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“Dilation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilation. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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