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[wawrd] / wɔrd /




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Feeney, who defected from the Conservative Party to Reform last year, was elected to the Shard End ward on Birmingham City Council in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

While Elliot was still recovering in a maternity ward the next day, Zhang demanded she buy a car seat and drive Zhang and her newborn son to the airport, according to the suit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

She also said it had helped prevent serious incidents, including falls on a dementia ward.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

During the many air-raid alerts, Iryna Stebnivska stays in the ward where her four-month-old baby is being treated, rather than going to the shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sick call stretched around the side of the hospital, but we walked straight through the door and into a ward at the rear.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The disdain in her eyes wards off anyone from seeing weakness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Constance said it was important to note that pressures on A&E wards are affected by "delayed discharge of patients into social care settings".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Just a few metres away, life was returning to the hospital, with patients admitted to wards while doctors and nurses bustled around the facility's maze-like corridors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

For two decades, the only shield against respiratory syncytial virus, which fills pediatric wards each winter, was a drug called Synagis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

We were “state children,” court wards; he had the full say-so over us.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Some actual Buffetts have warded off comparisons to Berkshire’s chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Infrastructure like the Grapevine might’ve also warded her off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

Another widely-circulated post was written by a person who said their mother was badly injured in the attack and was currently warded in a hospital's intensive care unit.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

The drug, called lolamicin, also warded off secondary infections with Clostridioides difficile, a common and dangerous hospital-associated bacterial infection, and was effective against more than 130 multidrug-resistant bacterial strains in cell culture.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

Mr. Armin warded the blows easily enough but often failed to return them.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Praised for warding off pests, so-called bodega cats are also a cultural fixture for New Yorkers, some of whom are now pushing to enshrine legal rights for the little store helpers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Nostalgia, though, is a peril that the author, an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is bent on warding off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Social media–savvy psychologists and life coaches have created a cottage industry of warding off and healing from narcissists.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

As public attention increases, researchers have the dual task of building better evidence and warding off misconceptions.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

It was an answer to the question, but it came out as though he were warding off a nightmare or a blow, as though even the idea was an assault, and he couldn’t bear it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor


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