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[ham-string] / ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ /


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After starting only five games, he is now out for an extended period with a hamstring problem.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

This season, the Vikings signed Murray, who underwhelmed before suffering a hamstring injury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

He missed the 2025 Six Nations with a shoulder injury, while his 2026 tournament was ended by a hamstring injury sustained in training before England's opening-round win over Wales.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

If Nacua goes on injured reserve, he will join star receiver Davante Adams, who has been out since suffering a hamstring injury against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 6 at SoFi Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

For hamstring stretches, one person lies on the grass on his back with his leg straight up, while the other person leans in and slowly presses the leg a little higher.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

In practice, this means “exercises that build your butt while minimizing growth in the quads, hamstrings and thighs.”

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

With England attacking in midfield, George Ford cranked back his foot and launched a steepling, wobbling spiral bomb deep into the New Zealand 22m, the 32-year-old's pilates-loosened hamstrings stretched near vertical by the effort.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025

Uphills exact a harsh toll on an athlete’s hamstrings, glutes and calves while spiking their heart rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Last week we published exercises for the hips and hamstrings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

“In a bit, it’ll feel good. Like your hamstrings sighing.”

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jetten, 39, is hamstrung politically as his coalition has only 66 seats in the 150-member parliament, meaning he needs to cobble together votes from smaller parties -- or the opposition -- to pass legislation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Faced with rising borrowing costs, a deficit of 5.4% of GDP and a public debt at its highest level since the 1940s, Lecornu is financially as well as politically hamstrung.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Producers could become hamstrung without somewhere to send the gas, which comes from the same wells as oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Cleage’s play, it must be said, is hamstrung with exposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

The aftermath was horrific, with media reports showing hospitals without backup power, distraught families herded into the Superdome, emergency workers hamstrung by a lack of supplies.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“My biggest concern is that they may be hamstringing themselves in developing their model,” CFRA’s Snyder said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

Bank executives say rewards programs could drain their firms of deposits, hamstringing their ability to lend.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Challenges to get it done include market conditions that are hamstringing other planned real estate developments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

They're hamstringing billions of dollars of cancer research by putting on leave the people who make sure that the research dollars go to cancer researchers.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

In the great Chicago district practically all the men struck, hamstringing the big plants in the various steel towns of that section, Gary, Joliet, Indiana Harbor, South Chicago, etc.

From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster


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