canker
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Correction, April 22, 2026: This piece originally misstated that citrus canker is a viral infection.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
“There is a canker that Miss Havisham has allowed, welcomed even, in her heartbreak and desire for revenge.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Instead of launching systemic reforms that could help head off moral injury, they’re offering “wellness solutions” such as massages and meditation tips, which can amount to putting a Band-Aid on a canker sore.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2022
Jesse’s feelings about Leslie’s father poked up like a canker sore.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
The chestnut blight secretes a searing chemical, oxalic acid, into the tree bark, eventually causing cankers and death.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
There are multiple types of pathogens that can cause cankers, and pruning them out as you have been doing is the best solution.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022
Fire blight, a bacterial disease that can cause weeping cankers on pear-tree trunks, generally responds to antibiotics, but the drugs can stop working if over-used.
From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2017
He was curled up in a ball in pain, with bloody diarrhoea, a fever, cankers in his mouth, a rash on his face and boils on his legs.
From BBC ● May 26, 2014
In 1904, a keeper at the Bronx Zoo in New York noticed that the zoo’s handsome chestnuts had become covered in small orange cankers of an unfamiliar type.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing canker
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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