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[woond, wound] / wund, waʊnd /






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"Wound dressings should provide a suitable environment for facilitating healing and preventing infection," Alishahi said.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

In “The Wound and the Bow,” an influential essay on Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Edmund Wilson articulated this conundrum in different terms, arguing that it reflected a conception of “superior strength as inseparable from disability.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

One of the new artworks - an installation called The Wound is a Portal - is by multidisciplinary artist Gesiye who is from Trinidad and Tobago and has Nigerian heritage.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2022

His other hits, mostly in the 1960s, included "Don’t Be Angry," "B.J. the D.J," "Why I’m Walkin’," "A Wound Time Can’t Erase" and "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water."

From Fox News • Dec. 5, 2021

Wound too loose, it was like to fall off; wound too tight, it would tangle, trip, and bind.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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