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
They picked at this particular South Africa scab with their verbal armoury of salty snipes when a tense chase began.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
A sore at the corner of his mouth looked angry and red, like he had been scratching at the scab.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
Further out, the oil fields of Kern County are like dinosaur relics — scabs on the surface of the earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
His skin was so soft, his hands warm and wide, knuckles bruised and torn with brittle scabs.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Another described her underarm skin as developing a pink rash which had "scabbed over".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
The wounds that Vogel prods have largely scabbed over, and the concluding mood is one of compassion and release.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
Cedar, fir, madrone trees, scabbed with muscles, kelp, barnacles.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2023
There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water....
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
The rash goes through several stages which include flat spots, raised spots, blisters and then scabbing.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The wound oozes and scabbing cracks the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
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
I think the mechanisms behind this scabbing over of old concerns might explain some of the behavior we’re seeing in this pandemic.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2020
“I’m all done. It will hurt a little tomorrow and may bleed a bit during the scabbing stage, but you should be fine.”
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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