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[wawrd] / wɔrd /




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Labour councillor Josephine Mudzingwa, who represents the badly affected North Shields ward, says volunteers need "money, boats and people on the ground".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

A video taken shortly before her rescue showed Jackie sparring with two younger eagles, as she flipped on her back to ward them off with her talons.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Few places see more activity than the turquoise shores of Lake Tahoe, where homeowners are spending thousands to ward off the pantry-raiding, toothpaste-sniffing beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

In “The Shift,” she compresses the challenge of an entire profession into a single 12-hour shift on a hospital cancer ward.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

“Cassiopeia has a private governess and is the ward of one of the richest men in England. She has no need of a school for poor bright females.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

He also claimed he was told not to campaign in certain wards where activists did not want him because they did not agree with his views on "matters of conscience".

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Everything clicked for the Beatles after the well-tailored Epstein convinced his wards to forsake Hamburg leather for matching suits in 1962.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Altogether, of his nine listed wards, seven had died.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The men warded off thirst by sucking on buttons and kept warm by dipping their clothes into the bath-like sea.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

Their agreement to testify warded off potential contempt-of-Congress proceedings against them.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 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

Bronze Yohn's heir, Ser Andar Royce, and his younger brother Ser Robar, their silvered steel plate filigreed in bronze with the same ancient runes that warded their father.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

The subsidy-fueled gold rush emboldened unions to squeeze producers, warding off studios looking for inexpensive film locations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Part of rebirth is the bittersweet mastery of warding off misaligned energy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

Leo saw Annabeth sprawled on the floor of a dark cavern, holding up her bronze knife as if warding off a monster.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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