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bruise

[brooz] / bruz /




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Fried has had two arduous IL stints dealing with a bone bruise on his left elbow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"An aggressive pacifism, obviously, but we only bruise our victims' egos," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

But the images also bring back “the chirping and the beeping,” the panic and urgency, and the toe-prick tests that made Jackson bruise and “squeal” with pain.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

The officer asks Digwa: "Are you injured?" to which Digwa replies: "Yeah, yeah, I've got a swollen eye here, a little bruise here."

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“It’ll hurt for a while, maybe bruise a bit, but there’s no real damage,” Emily said in a half-whisper.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

"The next I saw him was when I was literally underneath him and thankfully no serious damage. A couple of bumps and bruises but managed to walk away unscathed, luckily."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“When the consequences of a geopolitical crisis roils oil markets and bruises the bond market, it is only a matter of time before equities get hit,” Brooks of XTB added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

When people notice his plentiful bruises, Almásy makes up excuses, leading them to think he’s a klutz.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Two others were treated for cuts and bruises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

They were always getting scratched by cats, or cutting themselves shaving, or stumbling over footstools in the dark—reasonable explanations, certainly, but for sedentary people they had an odd excess of bruises and small wounds.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

That’s some shaky ground on which to repair bruised friendships.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

U.S. junk bonds are getting badly bruised in September, with their high yields so far failing to provide enough cushion this month to withstand heightened market volatility without losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Javier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

For years, I would come home from figure-skating practice bruised from falling, exhausted from trying not to fall and tender from the ambient heartache of being a teenager.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Two of his fingers were bruised under the falling wood.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

After a bruising October for tech stocks, we enter November with a familiar question: Is it time to buy the dip?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

St. Clair simply calls him a “nuke,” one that might readily self-detonate at the slightest bruising of his self-image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The two men now face a bruising runoff on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Kerrigan recovered from heavy bruising in time to make the USA team, alongside Harding.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Vanderbilt, also wound up with stress, blew off steam in bruising morning football games with the exercise boys.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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