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breast

[brest] / brɛst /




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Food and Drug Administration granted approval for the drug, based on the results of another trial, for advanced breast cancer upon the detection of a specific mutation.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Low vitamin D levels may make recovery from breast cancer surgery more painful and increase the need for opioid painkillers, according to research published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Catherine sat down and chatted to those receiving treatment at the hospital on Friday, including patients with breast cancer, head and neck cancer and a brain tumour.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Giredestrant has the potential to become a cornerstone therapy in breast cancer, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

He looks at Marlena, sighs deeply, and claps a hand to his breast.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Retail prices for boneless chicken breasts were down about 1.4% in June from a year prior, according to the Labor Department.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

A flood of Chinese goods into Russia has inundated domestic producers with cars, heavy machinery, textiles and even chicken breasts that are cheaper and often of better quality than what Russian companies can produce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Under his sagging, mango-size breasts protruded a potbelly.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

“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

The opening look set the tone - an ivory, double breasted coat, buttoned snuggly across the chest before flaring out, the feathery fringe of a miniskirt poking out below.

From Reuters Jan. 24, 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

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

The Lannisters moved through a sea of ragged men and hungry women, breasting a tide of sullen eyes.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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