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hamstring

[ham-string] / ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ /


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However, Chelsea made him available for sale this summer after he scored just one Premier League goal in a previous campaign disrupted by shoulder and hamstring injuries.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

His potential departure comes just over 12 months after moving to Stamford Bridge for £30m from Ipswich Town, but he ended the season with just one league goal after shoulder and hamstring injuries.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Still, Fofana says "small details" have helped him stay fit having broken his leg at Leicester before overcoming an ACL injury and hamstring surgery at Chelsea.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Adams was sidelined the next game and the final two games of the regular season because of a hamstring injury.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

I tried to follow his directions to the letter, but I felt a shooting pain through the front of my right quadriceps and down the back of my left hamstring.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

In practice, this means “exercises that build your butt while minimizing growth in the quads, hamstrings and thighs.”

From Salon May 8, 2026

And then you leave comments on it - maybe 'my hamstrings are sore from training yesterday'.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

Uphills exact a harsh toll on an athlete’s hamstrings, glutes and calves while spiking their heart rate.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

Last week we published exercises for the hips and hamstrings.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2025

She turned to him as they made their way to the dressing room, stopping right beside a couple of people stretching their hamstrings, who paused to give them thumbs-up signs before resuming their stretches.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

With Farage no longer an MP and fighting his own by-election in Clacton in Essex - he is hamstrung when it comes to devoting as much time and energy to Greater Manchester.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Cleage’s play, it must be said, is hamstrung with exposition.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The longer time you have to invest your $100,000, the more likely you won’t be hamstrung by a correction.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

But OpenAI's ability to keep raising the capital needed to operate is hamstrung by its convoluted governance structure -- in which a nonprofit board retains ultimate control over a for-profit arm.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

For months their intellects had been hamstrung by mystery.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“My biggest concern is that they may be hamstringing themselves in developing their model,” CFRA’s Snyder said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

Bank executives say rewards programs could drain their firms of deposits, hamstringing their ability to lend.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

Challenges to get it done include market conditions that are hamstringing other planned real estate developments.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2025

But it would take another two months for me to shake the thought of myself as an employee — an image that was hamstringing my income.

From Salon Jan. 11, 2025

Now the endless indignities, invasion of personal rights and freedom, the hamstringing of his work, the feeling of being cut off from the main currents of his field, filled him with despair, anger, and frustration.

From Security by Ernest M. Kenyon




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