scar
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The sharp pain of the wound may heal, but the scar remains—and we must all find a way that the broken heart can both feel the truth of its brokenness and emerge enlarged and reshaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"A deep scar" is how he explained his mental state.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the presence of APOE4, however, the pericytes changed into myofibroblast-like cells that produce scar tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The year after that, heavy rains pummeled the burn scar, burying buildings and vehicles under mud and debris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
She reached out a hand—but a man, a great rock of a person, nearly seven feet tall, with gold hoops in his ears and a burn scar on his neck, stepped closer to inspect it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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"Our burned-area estimates are conservative for two reasons. First, we exclude individual burn scars smaller than 6.25 hectares... Second, we prioritise avoiding false detections," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I don’t think my mind allows me to rest, ever. I have . . . some deep scars that I don’t think were healed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“It happened to me, and it’s the truth, and I have all the scars to prove it,” Manganiello told the outlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Researchers had previously used EMR to reshape cartilage-rich rabbit ears and to modify scars and skin in pigs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
It had scars across its body and one completely white eye, which, I swear, winked at me.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Obviously, and he had some darkness in him; he came back from World War II really scarred, couldn’t really deal with it . . . but he was also a very outgoing guy.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Interest rates are already higher than four years ago, she added, and consumers, somewhat scarred by previous price hikes, have changed how they spend.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Now, standing above the scarred banks of the river in Nuwakot district more than a week after the disaster, Dawadi described himself simply as "a principal without a school".
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Then, because the pills cost tens of thousands of dollars and could bankrupt budgets, state after state decided you couldn’t have the cure until your liver had scarred badly enough to prove you needed it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
All the other visible hills, including those facing me across the narrow valley, looked to be in good health, except where they had been scarred and gouged by quarrying or strip mining, which was regularly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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However, most people with fatty liver disease do not develop advanced liver scarring.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
For more serious scarring, dermatologists can recommend more aggressive treatments such as lasers that probe deeper into the skin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
It also increases the risk of marks and scarring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Laboratory experiments also showed that urolithin A helped heart tissue relax more effectively and reduced fibrosis, the harmful scarring that can interfere with normal heart function.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
He laid the foundation incorrectly, so that it wasn’t long before cracks began to branch over the walls, scarring the iconography.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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