tendon
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“Whether it’s your bone, whether it’s your muscle, whether it’s your tendon, you have to challenge yourself every day with different things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He has not played competitively since 2024 after rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and having back surgery last October.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Kindell, who once made all his dough by hand – until an elbow tendon injury forced him to investigate using machines instead, is now working on his own version of a pizza-making robot.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“If you’re training plyometrics, you’re training the explosivity of your tendons, and that’s bulletproofing whatever joint that tendon is attached to — the tendons in your foot or ankle or hip,” Altman says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I dig a beetle larva out of a decaying log and put it on a thornbush fishhook I made and tied to a fine cord of deer tendon.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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After games we use the blood flow restriction machine just to get blood flow to your tendons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The unnatural act of throwing a baseball still tears tendons and wrenches elbows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Richards, who missed the 2022 World Cup because of a hamstring injury, tore two tendons in his left ankle a month ago but is healthy enough now to play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
The 36-year-old added that surgeons have told him he was fortunate not to have severed any nerves or tendons but that he should gradually recover following further treatment.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
When prayers were said and all the grain was scattered great-hearted Thrasymedes in a flash swung the axe, at one blow cutting through the neck tendons.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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