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cord

[kawrd] / kɔrd /


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Worthing FC owner George Dowell MBE, who has a spinal cord injury, says "silly comments" are often to be expected.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

By demonstrating impaired nerve-to-muscle communication in a system containing no brain or spinal cord, the study provides evidence that mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's can produce effects beyond the central nervous system.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

The researchers identified three important pathways involved in controlling skeletal muscles that also connect one side of the brain with the opposite side of the spinal cord.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Because the two conditions involve some overlapping biological mechanisms, the scientists believed that a drug developed to address nervous system damage after spinal cord injury might also improve certain Alzheimer's-related changes in neurons.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Your brain and spinal cord have about 100 billion neurons.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

"I really damaged my vocal cords," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Some cats love to chomp on power cords.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Inflammation subsided, and the spinal cords regenerated perfectly, even though the neutrophils themselves were no longer present.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Annnnnnnd the cords of muscle in his forearm look on the verge of popping through his skin.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

She still packs corded earphones for in-flight entertainment systems along with Apple AirPods Pro 3, which she loves for their size and noise-canceling capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

She was directed down another hall, another locked door, before she finally arrived at a stall with a corded phone.

From Slate ● May 2, 2025

Even though it’s so cliche, Runyon is convenient, so I will go there, listen to music in my corded headphones and maybe I’ll plan for my podcast that week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

The analysis of corded ware vessels also challenges previous considerations.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Coaxing a fresh blaze with a blowpipe, he found tongs and with them held a portion of the collar carefully to the blast, his corded, brown old back gleaming with the heat.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I rescued an abandoned set of chairs missing their woven seats, watched a YouTube video on cording and turned them into living-room fixtures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Lip cord is a tiny cording that creates a delicate and refined accent.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Bubble wrap might crush your standard ribbon bows, so the Container Store suggests using more wire-edged ribbon or tulle, which can be fluffed out, or cording.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2020

Jewel-toned blue, green and purple nylon was cut into pretty sleeveless dresses slit and ruched with cording detail to softly accent the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2016

It was a Saturday and I spent its hours cording wood in the shed, pausing now and then for a look into my grammar.

From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller


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