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rib

[rib] / rɪb /


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Watson, who was able to keep up with the game on a doctor’s phone, said he was told he had broken a rib.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your main courses are an endless supply of vegetables, tofus, noodles and proteins like short rib, bulgogi and pork belly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Levine, who was wearing protective gear clearly marked “Press,” was treated for lacerations, a broken rib and other injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

After the rib broke, iron rich blood entered the injured area and new blood vessels formed as part of the healing process.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

A rib cage caught the last light of evening.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

From Jack London comes a kick in the ribs: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

This shuttle stack sits in flight configuration, almost exactly as it would look on the cusp of liftoff, besides the yellow torque tubes lining the orbiter’s white shell like external ribs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"We were able to help people who had suffered severe blows to their chest and ribs," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The fossil became even more unusual when researchers examined a dark area preserved between its ribs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was hard to tell if it was her ribs bothering her or the conversation.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

“Want me to carry your purse for you?” he ribbed.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ediacaran organisms came in many unfamiliar forms, including flat discs, leafy shapes, and ribbed ovals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

“In the Bozeman area, are you going to get ribbed and teased for being from L.A.? Yes. But do I think people really care after you get that ribbing? No,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

She moves quickly from caves to cathedrals and their architecture, including King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, with its soaring 16th-century ceiling—the world’s largest fan vault, ribbed in interlocking patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

The spiders were communicating once more, slowly rubbing their great ribbed back legs together like poisonous crickets.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

On Wednesday, the usual bad-tempered jibes and angry exchanges witnessed in the political theatre of the weekly Prime Minister's Questions, were replaced by gentle ribbing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

“In the Bozeman area, are you going to get ribbed and teased for being from L.A.? Yes. But do I think people really care after you get that ribbing? No,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

When Paul pressed him again about his lack of apology, lack of contrition, and inability to even say he “misspoke,” while ribbing him about his “low impulse control” and presentation of “machismo,” Mullin didn’t waver.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026

As a series living in “the kind lane,” the characters are accepted for who they are — even if there’s gentle ribbing at times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

Followed by laughter and the good-natured ribbing that usually followed one of Luke’s epic failures on this front.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss


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