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breast

[brest] / brɛst /




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The video, posted on Friday, teases the release of a longer YouTube video to come on Saturday, in which Vanessa and Kai Trump will discuss breast cancer awareness and prevention, Kai wrote in the caption.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Treatments have been advancing, including more targeted therapies for early breast cancer, new types of hormonal therapies, and more precise and effective radiotherapy.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Both increase the risk of breast, colorectal and other cancers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

What would have been a grueling process for most was an escape for Dieffenbach, who was struggling through the most adverse time in his life: his mother’s bout with breast cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Later, after the nurse arrived and the baby fed at her breast and fell asleep, Olanna and Odenigbo looked down at her, lying face up in the cot near their bed.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Know how to check your breasts for cancer.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Retail prices for boneless chicken breasts were down about 1.4% in June from a year prior, according to the Labor Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

Lourdes felt the clot dislodge and liquefy beneath her breasts, float through her belly, and slide down her thighs.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

The assistant bar manager, for instance, wears a sports jacket of burgundy velvet; the bar manager wears the double breasted version of the same garment, which is incrementally fancier.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

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

Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Cormorants balancing on the calcified poles of long-abandoned jetties, looked, as they spread their wings to dry in the sun, like runners breasting a tape.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

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

Why couldn’t she have come inside the sweet, cool store when we saw them breasting the hill?

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou


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