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Recent Examples of bruise
Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
Instead, bruising inside Aria’s cheeks and cuts in her mouth consistent with being smothered to death were discovered, said Dr. Tran.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025
There were frequent beatings and hurled objects, many resulting in injuries severe enough to cause bruises and lacerations.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025
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Noun
She was hospitalized with severe injuries, including bruising, bite marks and a fractured rib, according to documents.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
Instead, bruising inside Aria’s cheeks and cuts in her mouth consistent with being smothered to death were discovered, said Dr. Tran.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
Verb
There were also bruises on his arms, legs and neck, the nurse said.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025
There were frequent beatings and hurled objects, many resulting in injuries severe enough to cause bruises and lacerations.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bruise
Noun
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Instead of developing its own native system from scratch, Renault uses a Google operating system.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Writing your own code (from scratch, at least,) has become quaint.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Long and his team are working on 80 ambulatory locations, a mix that ranges from greenfield projects on raw land to scrapes of older buildings to adaptive reuse, or the repurposing of older buildings.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
5 July 2025
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Out here, the wind scrapes clean and the sun doesn’t blink, etching permanence into everything from the fence posts and stone chimneys to the endless forestland and Elk Mountain peaks that flank the ranch’s 500 acres.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
2 July 2025
Verb
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In another tense and sleepless night for Kyiv residents, with many of them dashing in the dark with children, pets and blankets to the protection of subway stations, at least 22 people were wounded, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Regional Administration.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
11 July 2025
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One person was killed and two others were wounded when the gunman, Thomas Crooks, opened fire.—
Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Brown didn’t return in the Clippers’ 95-92 win at Cox Pavilion on Friday night after sustaining what the team described as a right ankle contusion.—
Broderick Turner
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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Brown limped to the locker room a few minutes later and did not return with what team officials told reporters was a right ankle contusion.—
Staff,
Oc Register,
12 July 2025
Noun
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The fabric performed very well in our abrasion test, and didn’t develop any pilling, thinning, or loose threads whatsoever.—
Kathleen Felton,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 June 2025
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The abrasion test showed no tears or holes, with only slight color fading.—
Carrie Honaker,
Southern Living,
22 May 2025
Verb
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Another alleged he was ordered to keep working after a load of fish landed on him, gashing his leg to the bone and overflowing his boot with blood.—
Alex Riggins,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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That’s when Brandon Nimmo woke up to head for the hotel bathroom in the middle of the night, somehow fainted, gashed his forehead and wound up arriving at the park later with a bandage on his head and a hospital bracelet around his hand.—
Jayson Stark,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In June, food prices rose 0.3%, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics—about the same as April, and slightly faster than May’s 0.1% bump.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The bump pushed Netflix’s share of all TV use up to 8.3 percent, versus 7.5 percent in May.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
15 July 2025
Verb
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Satomi followed her 11-year-old friend to a nearby study room, where — after drawing the curtains — the girl slit Satomi’s throat with a box cutter and kicked her in the head and sides, The Washington Post reported.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
15 June 2025
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Then, the family members would drag their victim to a hidden cellar on the property and slit the victim’s throat, leaving them there to die.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
1 June 2025
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“Bruise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruise. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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