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bandage

[ban-dij] / ˈbæn dɪdʒ /
NOUN
covering for wound
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VERB
cover a wound
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STRONG


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The caption — complete with a winking emoji blowing a kiss — accompanied a photo of the “St. Denis Medical” star wearing a bandage around her face and neck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The 34-year-old all-rounder posted a picture on Instagram last week showing his eye heavily swollen and bruised, a graze on his cheek and lip, and a bandage stuffed in his nose.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

But any payment is only a bandage for a deeply rigged market.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

“By the time it was finished, there wasn’t one bandage left in either of the clubs,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

The bandage was still on her head and the doctor said it could not come off until next month.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The bandages soon got dirty from all the dust and debris, so he asked for socks to put over the dressing on the stump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The pilot, his head wrapped in bandages, and with a breathing tube in his nose, said the path to recovery was long.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

You can cat-proof them by wrapping them in no-chew, bitter-tasting bandages, which veterinary clinics use to prevent animals from biting them off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

She confirmed she had undergone an operation on her leg - sharing pictures of her leg in bandages along with an X-ray - but would be "home soon".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But that wasn’t something you could fix with medicine or bandages.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Eight hours later, he found himself in a hospital in Tine, with his hands burnt and bandaged.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

His right hand has repeatedly appeared bandaged and bruised.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2025

He played with a small cast on his left hand and was even using that bandaged appendage to stiff-arm defenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

They meet in the nurse’s office of their school, where Kayleen complains of an unsettled stomach and Doug has a bandaged face after taking a fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

A Viet Cong suspect, whose injured leg was bandaged by a US Marines medic, is carried to an interrogation area in a battle zone, 1965.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

“There were a lot of people in the background that were kind of bubblegum and bandaging everything together to make sure that there was not a single hiccup,” Goetter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Lifeguards at Bondi have been praised for their courage on the day of the December 14 attack, dragging people to safety, bandaging and resuscitating victims, and pulling panicked swimmers from the waves.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Trained in first aid, river crossing and high mountain rescue, they practise evacuating the village a few times a year, volunteers carrying the wounded on stretchers and bandaging mock injuries.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

"The treatment of human wounds was most likely first mentioned in a medical manuscript that dates back to 2200 BC, which included cleaning, plastering, and bandaging of wounds with certain wound care substances," says Schuppli.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

“And tear something into strips for bandaging his head.”

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk


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