chest
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The injury will have been caused by her chest slamming into the water.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
A beaming Vickye Giraldo holds her rescued kitten tight against her chest outside her ruined home in quake-hit Cali, Colombia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
His team planted fabricated papers naming the targets in a submerged chest in a Czech lake near the German border before “discovering” them in 1964.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When he mentioned that Alcaraz had left behind a 16-year-old daughter, the weight of his death struck me like a blow to the chest.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Father’s shoulders, arms, and chest are sharecropper thick.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Worn on officers’ chests, the devices record a first-person view of every encounter in real time and upload it to the cloud for later review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Our chests feel tight," she told AFP, saying the smoke combined with recent searing heatwaves and parched fields left conditions feeling "eerie."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The collection was discovered carefully packed inside several dust-covered wooden chests and wrapped in old newspapers and linen.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
McAfee, not fully grasping why people would want to drink milk that was unpasteurized, nonetheless went to his silo, filled half-gallon containers and packed them in ice chests.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The night before, she had spent most of her time on drawers and toy chests.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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