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fracture

[frak-cher] / ˈfræk tʃər /


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Seven months later, an X-ray finally revealed the damage from the fracture and the source of his continuing agony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

With fewer ways to accommodate the forces concentrated around a crack, the metal becomes more likely to fracture.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The British number five reached the third round at the Beijing Open earlier this month in her first WTA tournament for six months, having been sidelined with a stress fracture in her back.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

One concern is the risk of a compression fracture, which is when a vertebra collapses, usually as a result of osteoporosis, according to Banner Health’s Fisher.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I guess you’ve got a fracture all right. I'll wrap you up and don’t bounce your head around.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

The race also turned on local fractures within the Republican Party that, in better political times, might have been manageable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Older adults are also more likely to suffer fractures.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Researchers have identified unusual concentrations of hydrogen chloride gas above fractures in the Alba Mons volcanic region.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

One possible explanation is that gases originating from magma deep underground travel upward through these fractures.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Years later I found out I had sustained minor fractures to both feet.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Around mid-March, he said, a hole developed in his fractured lower right leg and a bone began protruding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“There are, unfortunately, fractured relationships that need to be fixed,” Luna told The Times four days before he began his first term in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

In May, a Honduran had a fractured right clavicle.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

That fracturing is going to make the stonewalling that they tried the last time around much more difficult, because there will be portions of that coalition that want to turn the page.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Two years on, that alliance appears to be fracturing - even if neither party has confirmed the rift.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

But nearly two centuries ago, European settlers started fracturing this relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

That raised fresh concerns about the appeal of U.S. assets in a fracturing world — and one where yield is no longer hard to find.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The media makes a big deal out of a movie star breaking a leg or fracturing a toe, but if a man with as much wisdom as my father passes away, no one cares.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers


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