scarred
Example Sentences
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Last year, retail investors outperformed professionals, by wading into the market when the pros were scarred by tariff worries.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026
And it plucks a nerve in a country still scarred by its history of militarism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
But in 2016, Anglia Ruskin University criminologist Colleen Moore dismissed the "excuse" that the family break-up had scarred Wright.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
With a slide showing dozens of shiny terraced apartment towers overlooking a tree-lined promenade, he promised a Mediterranean utopia rising from the scarred Gaza landscape.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Pieces of rockets, old nose cones, bent casements, and scarred nozzles were scattered everywhere.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
