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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expressing wishes for one's recovery.
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Examples
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More personally, being the recipient of a super-abundance of get-well cards, emails, and bouquets, I can attest to their power to uplift the spirit and assuage pain, especially those that went into detail in their messages about how much they cared for me.
Carla Seaquist: A Trek Through Cancer Carla Seaquist 2010
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In August, police officers created a get-well video to encourage him in his recovery and cheer him up.
Joshua J. Cullins, LAPD Officer Killed in Afghanistan, Remembered ktla.com 2010
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As I write these words, I'm sitting in Ibiza, Spain looking at a rather non-Jersey shore, but when I heard about Clarence having a stroke, I wanted to write a get-well playlist.
David Wild: "The Ties That Bind": A Get Well Playlist for Clarence Clemons David Wild 2011
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As I write these words, I'm sitting in Ibiza, Spain looking at a rather non-Jersey shore, but when I heard about Clarence having a stroke, I wanted to write a get-well playlist.
David Wild: "The Ties That Bind": A Get Well Playlist for Clarence Clemons David Wild 2011
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Airing the details constituted a remarkable break with traditions of medical privacy, and the American public responded with an outpouring that included over 55,000 get-well cards.
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Just a get-well note some intern had produced and signed by autopen.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Eric Thayer for The Wall Street Journal People left bouquets, balloons and get-well cards.
Woman Tends Tucson's Garden of Grief Tamara Audi 2011
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The lawn sprouted a wide bed of bouquets, balloons and get-well cards.
Woman Tends Tucson's Garden of Grief Tamara Audi 2011
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As I write these words, I'm sitting in Ibiza, Spain looking at a rather non-Jersey shore, but when I heard about Clarence having a stroke, I wanted to write a get-well playlist.
David Wild: "The Ties That Bind": A Get Well Playlist for Clarence Clemons David Wild 2011
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Airing the details constituted a remarkable break with traditions of medical privacy, and the American public responded with an outpouring that included over 55,000 get-well cards.
Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies Stephen Miller 2011
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