ankle
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The PC also lost a large percentage of the skin from his back after landing on the road and is on a waiting list for ankle ligament reconstruction.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
And that emergency fund came in handy when Malta started limping shortly after Anna suffered an ankle injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Bishop, from Liverpool, shared on social media he had suffered the ankle injury on 30 August, and his foot was "looking a bit fat" and "the bruising is out".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
During a tree climb, a chimpanzee ankle can flex upward by about 45 degrees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Her ankle caught on a vine and sent her crashing to the ground in a heap.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Researchers from The Ohio State University studied wild sooty mangabey monkeys, whose feet do not have the same highly flexible ankles found in chimpanzees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
“There’s indecision, and catching a baseball at your ankles kind of speaks to where his head is at right now,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Divers tied stone weights around their ankles and held their breath as they sank to the bottom of the shallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
And that’s when I ended up here, with freezing water sloshing around my ankles as I shiver with cold.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
