lozenge
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There’s always a lozenge in my bag, just in case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
It is an enormous yellow lozenge moored to the seafloor with two giant turbines attached on what look like great wings.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
The candy heart was born during the lozenge craze of the mid-1800s, when apothecaries sold medicated candies to soothe sore throats and suppress coughs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Those five geese were in balance with a black lozenge and a blue lozenge at the other end of the crossbar.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
There was a gray-veined lozenge of soap she preferred not to touch.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
On loan from La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, laid flat in a vitrine, is a flesh-colored silk-chiffon slip dress, its hem beaded with silver lozenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He reportedly tossed lozenges into the audience when a fit of coughing disrupted a performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Instead, Prof Smith says the best approach is for people to "wait it out", drink water to stay hydrated and take lozenges that encourage swallowing and "inhibit a cough" for a period of time.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
A typical go-to remedy is the mineral zinc, via the form of lozenges or supplements.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
His eyes were like Salim’s, I realized, dark lozenges.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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