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cuff

[kuhf] / kʌf /




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In high school, he played football and baseball — “I was throwing 87 in ninth grade” — but picked up a guitar after he tore a rotator cuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The numbers weren’t too far off from the cuff readings I took shortly after waking up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

If you do get an alert, the app instructs you to log your blood pressure with a cuff over seven days, and discuss the readings with a doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

After each group of three readings, researchers removed the cuff.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The woman wore huge diamonds at her neck and ears—they blinked and flashed even from this distance—and the man wore boat shoes and cuff links that winked under the recessed lighting.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon


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