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bandage

[ban-dij] / ˈbæn dɪdʒ /
NOUN
covering for wound
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VERB
cover a wound
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Antonyms
STRONG


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That’s when you can think about ripping off the bandage and converting funds to Roth with an eye to the tax rate of the next generation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

The caption — complete with a winking emoji blowing a kiss — accompanied a photo of the “St. Denis Medical” star wearing a bandage around her face and neck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

The 34-year-old all-rounder posted a picture on Instagram last week showing his eye heavily swollen and bruised, a graze on his cheek and lip, and a bandage stuffed in his nose.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

“By the time it was finished, there wasn’t one bandage left in either of the clubs,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

She tapped where the bandage had been, the scab now a pink scar.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Welly’s products include colorful adhesive bandages, first-aid kits and bug-bite relief patches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They spend up to three hours each night replacing bandages on his feet.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The pilot, his head wrapped in bandages, and with a breathing tube in his nose, said the path to recovery was long.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

You can cat-proof them by wrapping them in no-chew, bitter-tasting bandages, which veterinary clinics use to prevent animals from biting them off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The bandages on Max's hands get wet, and I watch as she takes them off.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Firefighters bandaged him and encouraged the Tuskegee University student to go to a hospital the next town over to receive stitches and medicine.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Eight hours later, he found himself in a hospital in Tine, with his hands burnt and bandaged.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Mirman wrote in the caption accompanying a photo of himself bandaged up and holding a piece of art that reads “Life is an Adventure.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

His right hand has repeatedly appeared bandaged and bruised.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2025

“Who’s been kindly to your hurts?” the boy’s mother asked as she looked down at the clean white rags that bandaged the boy’s fingers.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

“There were a lot of people in the background that were kind of bubblegum and bandaging everything together to make sure that there was not a single hiccup,” Goetter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Lifeguards at Bondi have been praised for their courage on the day of the December 14 attack, dragging people to safety, bandaging and resuscitating victims, and pulling panicked swimmers from the waves.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Yet in scenes she described as "horrific but humanising", prisoners rushed to help injured guards, calming a panicked female officer and bandaging the wounds of a crying interrogator.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

"The treatment of human wounds was most likely first mentioned in a medical manuscript that dates back to 2200 BC, which included cleaning, plastering, and bandaging of wounds with certain wound care substances," says Schuppli.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

Emma found some rubbing alcohol in the medicine cabinet and insisted on cleaning and bandaging the cut on my head.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs


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