breast
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It was then she reached out to BBC News NI to raise awareness about stage four and specifically inflammatory breast cancer.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In early 1999, Lieberson put her career on hold to nurse her sister Alexis, who was gravely ill from breast cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It was during a family holiday in July 2015 that Lynette experienced pain in her left breast.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Elevance says plastic surgeons seek $100,000 on average for breast reduction surgeries, while its in-network providers are paid $2,000 to $5,000 on average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Later, after the nurse arrived and the baby fed at her breast and fell asleep, Olanna and Odenigbo looked down at her, lying face up in the cot near their bed.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Raeda Nuaizi says cancer led to the removal of her breasts, ovaries, uterus and pelvic bone before the war.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Chicken breasts and hot dogs are assessed up 3% and 5%, respectively, said Well Fargo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Dr. Heather Richardson, a breast cancer surgeon in Beverly Hills, said she’s seeing more women who don’t carry genetic mutations nevertheless anxious to have their breasts removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
You spend too much money on a pack of chicken breasts.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
She clutched it to her breasts as she walked back out to Drogo, to her sun-and-stars.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
Double- breasted or three-button coats and a plethora of vests made for a sharp and smart collection.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2014
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Cormorants balancing on the calcified poles of long-abandoned jetties, looked, as they spread their wings to dry in the sun, like runners breasting a tape.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
Why couldn’t she have come inside the sweet, cool store when we saw them breasting the hill?
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
