breast
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Men can get breast cancer too, with about 420 new cases every year in the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Hormones have been linked to a slightly increased risk of breast cancer, although larger risk factors include alcohol intake and obesity.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The NHS breast cancer screening programme is regularly evaluated by the UK National Screening Committee.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He pleaded with Simpson to keep caring for them and sent sporadic payments totaling close to $10,000, plus reimbursement for breast milk, according to court records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
I tuck their tear-streaked cheeks to my breast, to comfort.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Older women are offered routine mammogram scans to check their breasts, but under 50s do not get any breast screening unless they have a strong family history of the disease.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anyone concerned the event might not adequately cover its poultry bases can also breathe easy: “blackened chicken, packaged chicken, boneless skinless chicken breasts and chicken legs” have all been noted.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
With cancer rates rising among people under 50, doctors specializing in breast reconstruction say they’re seeing ever-younger women opting to remove their breasts as a prophylactic measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Chicken breasts are $3.58 a pound on average, less than half the price of a pound of ground beef, according to the Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative report.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
So she went toward the kitchen, thinking to comfort herself against Nana’s breasts.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
The opening look set the tone - an ivory, double breasted coat, buttoned snuggly across the chest before flaring out, the feathery fringe of a miniskirt poking out below.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2023
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
The sea god Neptune takes retribution by sending a monster who advances “across the expanse of ocean, breasting the surge of the waves” to devour Andromeda.
From Washington Post
Tyrion put his heels into his horse and trotted through the Mud Gate, breasting the human tide.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
