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
As humans, we are nothing if not fascinated by our own bodies, whether that’s picking a scab, prodding a canker sore or popping a pimple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
The nurses had told me not to, but I couldn’t resist pulling on them real slow to see how big a scab I could get loose.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
“I had these giant scabs on my head,” he said, “these were like golf-ball-sized scabs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025
Two days later, there were scabs on her scalp.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She had reported concerns about a mole on her upper arm which had grown, becoming itchy and scabbed.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
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
Full recovery happens “when all of the sores have scabbed over, the scabs fall off, and new healthy skin has emerged,” McQuiston said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
Frankie flexed his fingers, regarding his scabbed knuckles, the slaughterhouse grime caught under his neatly trimmed nails.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The rash goes through several stages which include flat spots, raised spots, blisters and then scabbing.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
And so the tissue, instead of scabbing and healing, was starting to die.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
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
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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