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breast

[brest] / brɛst /




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She recalled speaking with breast cancer survivors who told her there were clear steps to follow after a breast cancer diagnosis.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

To make the protein pop, Conagra designed a custom marinade and added grill marks to the chicken breast slices.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

By 2022, breast cancer incidence among Asian American women under 50 had become comparable to the rate among white women of the same age group.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

The researchers also examined data from people with triple-negative breast cancer to determine whether the same biological pattern might occur in humans.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

I reached into my breast pocket for a pen and paper I did not possess.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride and Wayne-Sanderson Farms already have been ramping up production of boneless chicken breasts and wings to meet what is expected to be an onslaught of consumer demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

"They might get bloating and breasts can change shape."

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Anyone concerned the event might not adequately cover its poultry bases can also breathe easy: “blackened chicken, packaged chicken, boneless skinless chicken breasts and chicken legs” have all been noted.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

Raeda Nuaizi says cancer led to the removal of her breasts, ovaries, uterus and pelvic bone before the war.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

For women, it meant checking their bodies, including their breasts and teeth, and posture.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2023

The assistant bar manager, for instance, wears a sports jacket of burgundy velvet; the bar manager wears the double breasted version of the same garment, which is incrementally fancier.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2022

Classy tailoring on suits, such as a double breasted number that opened the show with a delicate nip at the waists, contrasted with white sneakers and vests.

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2022

Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.

From Washington Times Jan. 24, 2015

He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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




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