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bladder

[blad-er] / ˈblæd ər /


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Tyra Biosciences and Johnson & Johnson are pursuing their own approaches to treating a common, early-stage form of bladder cancer.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies the chemical as a probable carcinogen and has linked exposure to bladder cancer, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

My friend Brenna pays $77 monthly for pet insurance, which she says saved her thousands of dollars when her dog Honey had a bladder infection last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Not all cancers do, and that implies the vaccine’s success in melanoma may not translate to other types of cancer it’s being tested in, such as renal-cell carcinoma and bladder cancer.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

U.S. bases and installations throughout the Indo-Pacific—such as in Japan, the Philippines and Guam—are in desperate need of hardened aircraft shelters, air defenses, reinforced munitions storage bunkers and fuel bladders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

In Germany emerged so-called "Herod games" in which people would reportedly stage mock attacks on churches and assail bystanders with inflated animal bladders to ridicule the cruel absurdity of the Judean king.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024

These bladders create an internal vacuum and are closed by a special 'trap door'.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

But this artistic rationale is being pushed to its limits - with audience bladders left bursting as directors are empowered like never before.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

The stench of exertion, failed bladders, and most of all, fear, stunk worse than any livestock.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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