breast
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Ewan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The 67-year-old breast cancer survivor, who consults on sustainable textiles and runs a small farmers market, would never have her own property sprayed with pesticides, but admits to having envied neighbors who did.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
He pleaded with Simpson to keep caring for them and sent sporadic payments totaling close to $10,000, plus reimbursement for breast milk, according to court records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Unlike other breast cancers, you may not feel a lump, the charity said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Despite her size, the baby knew what to do when placed at her mother’s breast.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
"They might get bloating and breasts can change shape."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Dr. Heather Richardson, a breast cancer surgeon in Beverly Hills, said she’s seeing more women who don’t carry genetic mutations nevertheless anxious to have their breasts removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
“I always remove all the meat from the bones and freeze one or both breasts for later use,” explains one Redditor.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
When I put on my Sunday dress, which I hadn’t worn for almost two years, it strained across my breasts and shoulders.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
“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 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
