scab
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“I can tell you that it’s a wound that will scab over in time, but will tear open from time to time.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
"Unseasonal rainfall in April-May led to scab affecting the crop," says Abdula Gaffar Qazi, 50. "Even when some farmers sprayed pesticides, the rain washed it away."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
I run my tongue over the scab on my lip.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The spots fill up with fluid and become blisters before crusting over to form scabs, which eventually drop off and clear up.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
Verdugo Hills is ready with scabs to take on Birmingham in City flag football playoff game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
She’d gotten too big, and had the scabs and scars on her spine and elbows and knees to prove it.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Another described her underarm skin as developing a pink rash which had "scabbed over".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
His hand is still bruised and scabbed, and it must heal fully before he can resume swinging a bat.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2023
A year later, the scar hasn’t scabbed over.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
They’re bandages that also evoke the woven-cotton canvas of the painting underneath, a scabbed support that is coming undone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
I hugged him, kissing the scabbed bald spot on his head.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
The rash goes through several stages which include flat spots, raised spots, blisters and then scabbing.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
A few days after the fever begins, patients develop distinctive pustule-like lesions that usually start on the face and spread across the body before scabbing over and falling away.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
In the photos taken by investigators soon after Suzanne’s disappearance on Mother’s Day that year, there are three abrasions or cuts scabbing over, Rohrich said, Fox 21 reported.
From Fox News ● Aug. 23, 2021
And, hung from a barn door like a pair of swords and scabbing to ochre with rust, there were two axles rescued from the ashes of the last wagon owned by our family.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2018
That sore, with its scabbing and yellow pus, looked to have gone from bad to worse and about another mile past that.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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