shrapnel
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Despite her injuries – she walks with a limp, pieces of shrapnel still embedded in her leg and back – Svitlana is determined to keep working.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
German soldiers specialized in incorporating jagged chunks of shrapnel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
One letter opener combines steel shrapnel with the copper driving band of an artillery shell and an iron cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A Bangladeshi national was killed Wednesday by falling shrapnel from an intercepted drone in the United Arab Emirates.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Caroline said it softly, but it was exploding like shrapnel inside my stomach.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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