ICU
Americanabbreviation
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intensive care unit
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text messaging I see you
Example Sentences
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I was rotating through a pediatric ICU in Baltimore.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
She was still in that ICU when my rotation ended.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
The author argues that Bovino’s inflammatory rhetoric and theatrical enforcement style backfired, with his unsubstantiated claim that slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre law enforcement” particularly damaging public perception of immigration enforcement efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is concerned the federal government may “withhold” information about the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
I’d end up back in the ICU, by the whooshing ventilator beside his bed, and I’d be no closer to knowing.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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