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[wawrd] / wɔrd /




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Officials removed important documents and computers from the building before it fell, local ward chair Tej Thapa confirmed to the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Cameron, who was a Camden councillor for the Belsize ward from 1998 to 2002 and sat on the council's development control committee, said crime was another priority in his campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Weinstein is currently being held at a prison ward at Bellevue Hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

According to the report, the first indication that something was wrong came at 06:38 when a nurse can be seen running from the ward to get help, returning 20 seconds later with a security guard.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“I know, Abuela. Like the way you’re always trying to ward off the evil eye.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

The duke chatted to some of the young patients on the wards and also some of their families.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

They work in rural clinics and hospital wards across the world, from small Caribbean islands to as far away as Italy, where poor, rural communities rely on Cuban doctors to offer basic health services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Since me and another girl was wards of the state, we would be took care of.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

These latest figures have warded off recession concerns, at least for now.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

But her supporters argue that only a street fighter like her could have ended Communist rule in the state and, until this week, warded off a determined BJP attempt to oust her party from power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

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

The U.S. has mostly warded off the Houthi attacks, but on one occasion recently, the Houthis shot down a U.S.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

So thin, so frail and thin, the veils were become that still warded it off.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Through that work, Leal said he and other scientists have never found a product more long-lasting and overall effective at warding off mosquitoes than DEET.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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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