scar
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He has a prominent scar running across the top of his head from the surgery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The body responds by forming scar tissue, but that scar does not contract like healthy heart muscle.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Some were busy roads and she has a scar on her right leg from a collision with a motorbike while she was running.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
In the case of “Brigadoon,” Lerner and Loewe composed a musical that recognized the global scar of World War II, and in its insistence that love transcended loss, gave people the catharsis they needed.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Scars marked the snout, but one scar stood out from the rest—the letter M, with loopy humps like cursive.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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