PHYSIOTHERAPIST Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

physiotherapist

noun

Definition of physiotherapist

as in nurse

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Recent Examples of physiotherapist He had been limited to indoor work at the team’s training center with physiotherapists and fitness coaches, with Brazil being cautious about his return to action. — Reuters, NBC news, 18 June 2026 One of them, a 35 years-old physiotherapist, served in two different missions to the state between 2017 and 2024, before returning to Cuba at the end of his deployment. — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 3 June 2026 Daisy Ridley stars as a physiotherapist who travels to a remote Australian town after a mysterious explosion raises the walking dead. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 May 2026 Learmont was sent to a physiotherapist and given exercises to perform for the following few weeks. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for physiotherapist

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Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, gives birth to her third child.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Youth, teachers and parents in four towns complained of unsanitary school conditions and chronic staff shortages including of nurses and social workers.

— Reuters, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2026

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Rookie infielder Pedro Ramírez and two first-year members of the Cubs staff, major-league video and technology coordinator Brad Moylan and major-league physical therapist Jozef Palasiewicz, all dressed up as jockeys.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Now happily married to husband Brett, Burns lives blocks away from her mom in San Antonio, Texas, and works as a physical therapist while raising her teenage sons, Cooper and Caleb.

— Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

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Under his leadership, the department strengthened the community paramedic program and launched the Whole Blood Program, which allows paramedics to administer life-saving blood transfusions at the scene of an emergency.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
In the tape of the 9-1-1 call, Randolph can be heard disregarding paramedic’s orders, giving Causse chest compressions even after he was instructed to not touch the body.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

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State officials in August announced that two unvaccinated residents died after being infected with measles.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Instead, the island became self-sufficient, with the majority of residents managing their own farmland, with the island still bearing its patchwork quilt of stone walls and boundary lines.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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Research shows that the paucity of surgeons is likely to increase during the coming years.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2026
Among names of the women circulating in prediction markets this year are Gaza surgeon Sara al-Saqqa and Yulia Navalnaya, the Russian opposition figure and widow of Alexei Navalny.

— Mark Lewis, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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