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tissue

[tish-oo, tis-yoo] / ˈtɪʃ u, ˈtɪs ju /








NOUN
tendon
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Achim said doctors have told him he is missing some tissue and skin and he will need skin grafts.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

According to Cancer Research UK, external, stage four breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast tissue but spreads to another part of the body, making it incurable.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

“And that’s actually really hard to do and connect the tissue of all of it and have emotional stakes.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The methylation patterns also provided information about the tissue of origin, helping researchers determine which part of the body was producing the abnormal signal.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

I wash my hands one more time—I’d used a tissue to move the mouthguard, but who knows if that’s at all effective.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

So light up that candle, lock the doors and bring the tissues if you have to — just don’t be ashamed to feel all the feels, or shake your booty if the mood strikes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissues and Cottonelle toilet paper, agreed to buy Kenvue in November in a more than $40 billion deal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Flatworms, by contrast, contain abundant stem cells and can replace damaged tissues with remarkable efficiency.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Court staff escorted them in with boxes of tissues, paper cups of water and a kind hand on their arms.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

When I’m finally cried out, he gets up to give me a box of tissues and waits as I blow my nose.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

What idea is conveyed to your mind by the expressions, "orb'd in a rainbow," "like glories wearing," "thron'd in celestiall sheen," "the tissued clouds down stearing," etc.?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

National industry did all in its power to surmount this ignominious condition; she specially turned her attention to the manufacture of silks and of stuffs tissued with gold and silver.

From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

I consider the following lines as strictly copied by Thomas Warton: The daring artist Explored the pangs that rend the royal breast, Those wounds that lurk beneath the tissued vest.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

At length an individual figure among the tissued huntsmen, as he gazed upon them more fixedly, seemed to leave the arras and to approach the bed of the slumberer.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott

So saying, he number’d carefully the gold, The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260 But nothing miss’d of all.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper




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