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scar

[skahr] / skɑr /




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The sharp pain of the wound may heal, but the scar remains—and we must all find a way that the broken heart can both feel the truth of its brokenness and emerge enlarged and reshaped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"A deep scar" is how he explained his mental state.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

In the presence of APOE4, however, the pericytes changed into myofibroblast-like cells that produce scar tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The three attackers are all thought to be in their late teens or early 20s and one of them was a black male with a scar under his left eyebrow.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

For the first time Danny noticed a tiny scar over his sister’s brow.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Though widespread unrest is unlikely in China, given Beijing’s tight restrictions on dissent, a prolonged loss of hope among young people would leave deep scars on society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The team examined feeding scars and remaining living tissue at the University of Sydney's One Tree Island Research Station, located on the Great Barrier Reef.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

The charity Changing Faces wants the film and TV industry to stop using scars, burns and other visible differences as marks of villainy and has started a petition calling for more positive representation.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Los Javis use the stories to tell the tale of a brutal war that divided Spain and left deep scars, and the story of the joys and hardships of ordinary men turned into soldiers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

His knotted, long black hair dangled in front of his face, where scars crossed paths with one another.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Across this scarred landscape of abandoned farm fields and derelict villages are thousands of infantrymen, like Vlasenko, scattered in ones and twos, sheltering in makeshift bunkers—the humans in a robot war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Palisades and Altadena areas are among those recently scarred by wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Obviously, and he had some darkness in him; he came back from World War II really scarred, couldn’t really deal with it . . . but he was also a very outgoing guy.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Its roads are scarred by potholes, sewage leaks and overgrown vegetation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Chess jumped, knocking his shoulder against the scarred wooden door.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Two young women who have turned to dermal fillers after having cleft lip surgery say it has given them confidence after they were both left with scarring.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

After completing extra training she now works with non-profit organisation CleftInject, which help adults with scarring from cleft lip surgery find aesthetic practitioners who understand the condition.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

For more serious scarring, dermatologists can recommend more aggressive treatments such as lasers that probe deeper into the skin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The compound also reduced scarring and limited harmful enlargement of the heart.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

She moved toward the causeway, her feet scarring the snow for the first time.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo


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