frostbite
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The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Or do I help my fellow climber, who's got no oxygen, frostbite in his fingers, and obviously you're never far off hypothermia up there?"
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
They were outdoors working from dawn to dusk, and many ended up with frostbite on their hands and feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Another got frostbite and was flown out of the mission before it worsened.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Knew an old man back in Illinois who lost his toes to frostbite, walked like he had a stump for a foot.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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"We are managing his frostbites, cold injuries, hydration and trauma. He is being further evaluated and will be in our ICU."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The living wildlings Jon sent off to have their wounds and frostbites tended.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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They were out for a good time, and they had too much grit and courage to let such trifles as a few frostbites disturb their happiness.
From Algonquin Indian Tales by Egerton Ryerson Young
In other words, “North Country” seems to be a waxing philosophical in the “True Detective” tradition, but the end-of-the-earth environs inspire thoughts that are tied more to Indigenous myths and frostbit hallucinations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
“The Cro-Magnon” look, he calls it — wide forehead, frostbit eyes, a chin so square it must make mathematicians swoon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
His frostbit ears are still sensitive today, 50 years later.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
“I didn’t bite you once! You can keep your underdrawers. Gawdalmighty, them pants is wet, ain’t they? You ain’t frostbit, are you?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Next morning the ends of my toes were so frostbit by the extreme cold of the country, that I could no longer go barefooted.
To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
“Wynter Waxeth” builds from the hymnal melodies of a frostbitten gothic abbey, into groans of percussion and stacks of frantic, escalating chants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The teenager is wet, frostbitten and poorly dressed.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024
Seidl doesn’t have much in common with Aronofsky; “Rimini,” especially next to the hokey sentimentality of “The Wrestler,” is as severe as the titular coastal town’s foggy, frostbitten climate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Ai’s face was badly frostbitten this morning, nose, ears, chin all dead gray when I chanced to look at him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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