scab

“I can tell you that it’s a wound that will scab over in time, but will tear open from time to time.”

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

“Unhelpful ... Ripping open a healing scab is never helpful,” John Morgan, a Florida trial attorney who was a major fundraiser for Biden’s 2024 campaign, told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

“These people believe that you take the scab off of a wound and take it off again and again until something miraculous happens,” Boritt grumbles to the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Apples are also among the most heavily treated fruits, with pesticides used in particular to fight apple scab, the main fungal threat to orchards.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

I start picking at a scab from a cut I got a few days ago.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

An AFP photograph showed a red area with several brownish scabs protruding above his shirt collar on the right side of the neck of the 79-year-old president, the oldest ever elected.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

There’s a toughness in them, as several showed off scabs on their arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

The scabs had reopened on his knuckles and his fingers were trembling.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Whereas Li’s and Barker’s wounds are fresh, Longwell’s have largely scabbed over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another described her underarm skin as developing a pink rash which had "scabbed over".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

The wounds that Vogel prods have largely scabbed over, and the concluding mood is one of compassion and release.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

His hand is still bruised and scabbed, and it must heal fully before he can resume swinging a bat.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

They felt as though they could smell the warm scent of the children’s scalps, and touch those scabbed knees and hear those far-off voices.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The rash goes through several stages which include flat spots, raised spots, blisters and then scabbing.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

A few days after the fever begins, patients develop distinctive pustule-like lesions that usually start on the face and spread across the body before scabbing over and falling away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022

In the photos taken by investigators soon after Suzanne’s disappearance on Mother’s Day that year, there are three abrasions or cuts scabbing over, Rohrich said, Fox 21 reported.

From Fox News ● Aug. 23, 2021

They worked to stop the hemorrhaging, administering medications to stimulate extra contractions and aid in clotting and scabbing.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

That sore, with its scabbing and yellow pus, looked to have gone from bad to worse and about another mile past that.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool