bandage
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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
But any payment is only a bandage for a deeply rigged market.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
“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
It's a ripping off the bandage moment, which the Palace will hope will finally draw a line under the endless oil slick of bad news stories about Andrew.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
He used his teeth and bit through the bandage and put the mitten on.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
A trip to ancient Egypt, for instance, leads to one of the Minions running out of toilet paper and accidentally unwrapping a nearby mummy’s bandages for the purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
In media, a great new hire or a hard-earned bit of reader goodwill are just fresh bandages placed over a wound that must be constantly treated.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
In 2011, the late Labour MP Paul Flynn, a staunch republican, called on MPs "to remove the bandages from our mouths" when it came to royalty.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
After a brutal fight, for example, Hijiri bandages her enemies’ wounds with as much care as he does hers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
After he’d wrapped his friend’s head in bandages, he tried to wake him up.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Eight hours later, he found himself in a hospital in Tine, with his hands burnt and bandaged.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
But still, when I speak to him afterwards, his heavily bandaged leg throbbing, he is determined.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Megan announced the news on Instagram alongside a bandaged heart emoji and said she would step away from the production Friday rather than the originally slated May 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Then she slow-motion struts down an L.A. sidewalk in heels, barges into the meeting, props her bloody, bandaged foot on the table, and somehow still closes the deal with the celebrity stylist.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
He paints two self-portraits showing his bandaged ear.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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
"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
Even though I was covered in thick bandaging, my chest was now flatter than it had been in a long time.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2023
The owl underwent a nearly four-hour surgery that involved putting in an “external fixator in the leg,” reconstructing its beak and bandaging its fractured wing, a Facebook post said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
She was in the intensive care unit bandaging a patient when she was called to the phone.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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