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Research into breast cancer or DNA sequencing that helped combat coronavirus could also be honoured.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Stewart, from Londonderry, won four caps for Ireland between 1999 and 2000 and was a founding member of Ulster Women's Rugby but, in 2003, she died after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, there were 4,673 private breast reduction procedures carried out in the UK in 2025, a 2% rise on the year before.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

A chief breast surgeon at Kaiser and another surgeon who had retired from that job both testified that the Kaiser physician assistant failed to follow the health system’s guidelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Held against the breast, next to the heart, the same interlaced hands were those of a lover who pleadeth for mercy from his beloved.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Another series of sculptures, “Miss Mao,” depicts the former leader with an exaggerated nose and breasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

The NHS says to check your breasts, external or chest about once a month.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Know how to check your breasts for cancer.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

She pencils hair in, under their arms, and on their chests between the breasts.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

On a recent visit, a red breasted hawk perched atop a post where one of its security lights had broken and fallen off.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021

A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018

There were no fat little pigeon- breasted bags of gold.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021

In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016

The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves” to devour Andromeda.

From Washington Post

I’m examining the arches of my feet, trying to understand what it means that they have “fallen,” when I see Clementine breasting through the water to me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides