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Her mother, Koushila, had first taken her to a doctor, who prescribed an ointment.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But even here there is a fly in the ointment, since consumer staples is a defensive sector that tends to produce its best relative performance when the market is about to decline.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The vitamin K shot is one of the three main interventions, along with the hepatitis B vaccine and an antibiotic ointment in the eyes, that newborns typically receive before leaving the hospital.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

The human-headed fly in the ointment is the island itself, which is a supernatural smorgasbord, mostly quiet but waking up just in time to meet the visitors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

He cleaned off Aurora’s wound as well as he could and applied an ointment she told him would numb the area.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Little wonder, then, that many patients preferred the services of women healers, or would take a risk on “quacks”—traveling salesmen selling ointments from town to town—rather than risk a visit to a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

They collaborated with Dr. Takato Kajita and Junior Associate Professor Atsushi Noro from the Graduate School of Engineering to study how the MicroShunt changes after contact with petrolatum-based eye ointments.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

"It's the season for skin infections and we don't have creams or ointments for bacterial infections, no medicines to treat scabies and head lice."

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025

“Creams and ointments are always better than lotions, things out of jars are always better than things out of a pump bottle,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

From time to time, the two of them talk about ointments and roots.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes