heal
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When he was finally set free two years ago as part of an extraordinary multi-country prisoner swap, it took him almost as long to heal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
One reason wounds often take longer to heal with age involves the gradual accumulation of cells known as senescent cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Gretta and Dan are seemingly brought together by fate to heal one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Each day Ivy and her grandmother walked in the great forest, where Gran collected herbs and leaves that she made into remedies to heal the villagers of their aches and pains.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
If I could boil my formula for the future of dementia care into two words, it would be this: Hope heals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
In 1986, an article in the New Journal of Medicine by Dr. Harold Dvorak suggested that cancer behaves very much like a wound that never heals.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
Luis Tadeo, director of marketing and public relations of CHIRLA, understands the critical role sports and culture play in shaping the way that the community engages and heals in unprecedented times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
This bush has poisonous berries, yet its wood often heals wounds that nothing else will.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Scotty died before the fracture had completely healed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The scientists then created small wounds and monitored how quickly they healed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
He had said it was how he had healed his PTSD.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
"When we finally broke that seal of talking about it, it healed us, in a way," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The burn was mostly healed, but echoes of the pain came back if she got too close to heat.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
"Our continued healing is not dependent on this guilty verdict," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
But I suppose I can’t laud the valuable healing qualities of his music and then wish that fewer people had shown up to get a taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
That’s kind of what you’re talking about, bringing people back together, healing divides.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Proponents hold that estrangement is being destigmatized, not necessarily happening more often, and that it can be needed and healing for adult children to cut off parents they deem harmful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
It also makes community healing and collective political action next to impossible.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
