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bandage

[ban-dij] / ˈbæn dɪdʒ /
NOUN
covering for wound
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VERB
cover a wound
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Antonyms
STRONG


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Someone in the crowd applied a bandage to his head and he was quickly taken to an emergency room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

Palace are the second-biggest spenders behind Man City this month but have they merely stuck a glossy bandage over their problems?

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

His right hand shows persistent bruising, often covered with thick makeup and at times a bandage, and his ankles have appeared swollen.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

But any payment is only a bandage for a deeply rigged market.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

Her elbow was covered with a large bandage.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Welly’s products include colorful adhesive bandages, first-aid kits and bug-bite relief patches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They spend up to three hours each night replacing bandages on his feet.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

You can cat-proof them by wrapping them in no-chew, bitter-tasting bandages, which veterinary clinics use to prevent animals from biting them off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

When her bandages are unwrapped, she’s devastated to learn that her face is still symmetrical, with a thin nose, unblemished skin, and full lips.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

When the doctors took my bandages off, they discovered I’d been replaced by a small, ugly alien.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

Soon Borquez was seen walking off to get his shoulder bandaged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

There was a sizeable police presence in the area and visibly shocked local residents were in the streets, including some with bandaged faces.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Then she slow-motion struts down an L.A. sidewalk in heels, barges into the meeting, props her bloody, bandaged foot on the table, and somehow still closes the deal with the celebrity stylist.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

They meet in the nurse’s office of their school, where Kayleen complains of an unsettled stomach and Doug has a bandaged face after taking a fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Radar trotted along on his other side, bandaged but none the worse for wear.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

Crimson underwent multiple bandaging and bracing techniques to aid his limb development.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

“There were a lot of people in the background that were kind of bubblegum and bandaging everything together to make sure that there was not a single hiccup,” Goetter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Lifeguards at Bondi have been praised for their courage on the day of the December 14 attack, dragging people to safety, bandaging and resuscitating victims, and pulling panicked swimmers from the waves.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Yet in scenes she described as "horrific but humanising", prisoners rushed to help injured guards, calming a panicked female officer and bandaging the wounds of a crying interrogator.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

Three hands were held up: Mary Lou, Jennifer, and Miss Arkansas, who couldn’t lower her hand due to the bandaging.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray


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