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heal

[heel] / hil /


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"And see how we can dress it and nurse it and heal".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

They implanted the keratin membranes into rats with skull defects that were large enough that they would not normally heal on their own.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Despite generous overtures to Stevens and assurances to the Jewish community El-Sayed made in remarks on Wednesday morning after the race was called, there are intraparty divisions left to heal.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

“We’re putting in the work to make fundraisers for social issues and giving back to our community. Raving and DJing helps to heal trauma and helps us to open up.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

He would heal her and together they would suffer the duller ache of longing.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

If I could boil my formula for the future of dementia care into two words, it would be this: Hope heals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

"I lost all my family because of that. And as years went on I buried it deep inside, but the wound never heals."

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.

From Salon Dec. 11, 2025

In 1986, an article in the New Journal of Medicine by Dr. Harold Dvorak suggested that cancer behaves very much like a wound that never heals.

From Science Daily Dec. 10, 2025

“No! It’s for your skin. It’s very burnt. Stay out of the sun until it heals, and if it stings anywhere just use this.”

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Most of the marked bones showed no signs that the surrounding tissue had healed.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

"The anniversary will be hard to live with; the scars from that day still don't feel healed locally."

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

I want him to be happy and healed, but it felt like ...

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

As their $20 bills started flying at him, so did their stories, about how raw milk had healed their health issues, including asthma.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Phineas has a huge scar on his forehead and a small scar under his cheekbone, but otherwise he is physically healed.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

While healing from their losses, they hustled, working as caregivers, nannies, Uber drivers and house cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Jobe recommended total rest but after a month, with no sign of healing, he came up with an outside-the-box suggestion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

A video from 2015 shows how, in Ojibwe tradition, dancers provide healing through the rhythmic music created, with every step they take, by the numerous cone-shaped bells that adorn their jingle-dresses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

"I'm healing," she told the US breakfast TV show, Today.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

He spoke so often and so passionately of healing our country’s divisions, appealing to a set of higher ideals he believed were innate in most people.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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