fractured
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The following year, an X-ray revealed that Watanabe’s tailbone was fractured, and bone chips had become lodged in the surrounding soft tissue.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026
But the straight-talking 42-year-old El-Sayed pledged to help cash-strapped voters navigate America's fractured, for-profit health care system.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Impacts could have fractured the objects and exposed fresh material, potentially changing their surface compositions and colors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Watch Duty exploded in popularity by providing up-to-the-minute firefighting updates, fire perimeters, and on-the-scene reports to people previously stuck navigating a fractured system of emergency alerts that gave minimal information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The shell may be broken, and even portions of it removed, and yet after a certain lapse of time the injured parts will be repaired by a deposition of shelly matter at the fractured parts.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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