sickle
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The treatment, for patients with thalassaemia or sickle cell disease, is offered to young people at three children's hospitals in the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Studies have shown that sickle cell trait can be fatal when coupled with rhabdomyolysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Without any products on the market, Fulcrum Therapeutics had been striving to commercialize its experimental drug for sickle cell disease, but those plans appear to now be on hold.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
He’s got a big old sickle; is cutting weeds along his side of the road.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
These farmers used stone tools such as sickles and made simple jars to store their grain.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
On a street in Romania in 2004, a young boy sold Mr. Kalb a souvenir for $16: a set of Soviet-era binoculars etched with red stars, hammers and sickles, and crossed Kalashnikov rifles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
Eighteen-year-old Noor Mohammad and 25-year-old Ahmad keep swinging their sickles to clear a remaining metre of grain.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
The palms themselves serve as a wind barrier, creating sauna-like conditions, and harvesters need incredible strength to hoist long poles with sickles into the towering trees.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
The saw-like sickles had only lately been put away, and the wheat stood in stooks of eight among the tall stubble of those tin** The Wait still itched.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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