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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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They eventually found a first aid kit to treat his open wound, but there was only a single bandage.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Someone in the crowd applied a bandage to his head and he was quickly taken to an emergency room.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 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

He was wearing his army uniform and had a white bandage around his head.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

After the somewhat painful task of blood collection and a few bandages later, I mailed the sample in.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

"I told myself, I'm going to sleep," Canonico recalled, up to her elbows in bandages following the ordeal.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

In media, a great new hire or a hard-earned bit of reader goodwill are just fresh bandages placed over a wound that must be constantly treated.

From Salon May 6, 2026

She keeps a good supply of bandages for her fingers because the reeds have sharp edges when they’re split, and it’s easy to get the equivalent of paper cuts.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2026

Some people liked to walk around the city with bandages across the bridge of their noses, just so people would think they'd gotten surgery.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

His nose is too small for oxygen tubes to sit comfortably so doctors have bandaged and taped them into place.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Mirman wrote in the caption accompanying a photo of himself bandaged up and holding a piece of art that reads “Life is an Adventure.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

There was a sizeable police presence in the area and visibly shocked local residents were in the streets, including some with bandaged faces.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Then she slow-motion struts down an L.A. sidewalk in heels, barges into the meeting, props her bloody, bandaged foot on the table, and somehow still closes the deal with the celebrity stylist.

From Salon Dec. 15, 2025

My feet are still bandaged and though I can’t walk properly outside, I hobble around the house.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

“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

Yet in scenes she described as "horrific but humanising", prisoners rushed to help injured guards, calming a panicked female officer and bandaging the wounds of a crying interrogator.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2025

"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

Diana kept her eyes on Cas as Frankie stepped into the room and started explaining how the bandaging would work once Kaitlin was free.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau




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