ankle
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Top pass rusher Brian Burns sprained his left ankle and left tackle Andrew Thomas sustained an apparent lower-body injury, with neither player returning to the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Townsend was concerned his ankle and left knee, which have both been operated on, would be damaged in the incident.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Dyer is back to compete for a second time, having withdrawn from last year's series due to a fractured ankle.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I have one on my inner ankle, one on my forearm, one on my collarbone, one on my lower back of a cat reading ‘Bunny’ and one on my thigh,” Grondine says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Instead of working her way back to the house like Buddy had figured, she got all tangled up in the bushes, then twisted her ankle and fell.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
"Tamirkhan's hind legs are long and slender with distinctive ankles, traits that are unmistakably zalambdalestoid," said study author Shawn Zack, a paleontologist at the University of Arizona.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
In surveillance video, the men are seen slicing the depiction of Jesus at the ankles and carting it away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In a recent game at Golden State, her dribble behind the back to create space for a 3-pointer left a Valkyries player staggering backward and grabbing her ankles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
One morning, when I tried to pull my pants up, they rose above my ankles.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
