How to Use diagnose in a Sentence

diagnose

verb
Definition of diagnosenext
Synonyms for diagnosenext
  • Thousands of new cases have been diagnosed in the past year.
  • The test is used to help in diagnosing heart disease.
  • The doctor was unable to diagnose the skin condition.
  • The mechanic was unable to diagnose the problem.
  • Soon, he was diagnosed with the blood clots, and placed on the NFI list.
    — cleveland, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Williams was diagnosed with the rare cancer a year ago.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • At the time of the initial filming I had just been diagnosed with stage III breast cancer.
    — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Shelmerdine was diagnosed with a rare form of bile duct cancer in 2016.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Black women are more likely to be diagnosed at a younger age with a more advanced stage of the disease.
    — Nathalie McDowell Johnson, STAT, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Dan Seals was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008.
    — Jim Asker, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The rapper’s only daughter was diagnosed with lupus at the age of 6.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The idea that narratives can and should float free from facts is of course part of what Bennet is diagnosing.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the athletes (48 of the 63) diagnosed with CTE had played football as their primary sport, according to the study.
    — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Dodd said engineers at JPL have spent the better part of three months trying to diagnose the cause of the problem.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Betty had not been diagnosed with gout, and none of her doctors had prescribed her colchicine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And yet she was still diagnosed with breast cancer two months later.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2024
  • While a cause of death was not disclosed, Levin had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Men and women are diagnosed with it at almost the same rate, says Couric, who lost her first husband to colon cancer.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In 2012, the star revealed she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 8 July 2023
  • By Christmas that year, my mom had been diagnosed with cancer.
    — Nicole Chung, Time, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In one scene, towards the end of the film, Felicia visits the doctor’s office and is diagnosed with cancer.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Betty was diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's in 2002, McLeod said.
    — Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age than white women.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • Her father, Alan Gawthorpe, 72, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • But her life was plagued with illness, first dealing with melanoma, a type of skin cancer, in her 30s, and then being diagnosed with breast cancer in her 50s.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • When the results came back, she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at 31.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The talented beauty was diagnosed with lupus at the age of six, which has triggered a host of other challenges.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Garfinkel monitored the heartbeats of twenty people who’d been diagnosed with autism, and also asked them to count the beats themselves.
    — Jessica Wapner, The New Yorker, 6 July 2023
  • She had already been diagnosed with Graves’ disease and lymphedema, which is the buildup of fluid in soft body tissues.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
  • My mother was diagnosed with a fairly rare cancer five months ago.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 July 2023

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