contusion
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Durant, who missed Game 1 because of a knee contusion, suffered the latest injury in the fourth quarter of Game 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Marcus Smart, who had missed nine straight games with a right ankle contusion, had six points in 18 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
And even though Smart missed his fifth straight game Tuesday night against the Cavaliers with a right ankle contusion, Ayton and the Lakers still felt his presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The Lakers could also be without guard Marcus Smart, who has missed the last three games because of a right ankle contusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2026
Half was a purple contusion that hung in strips like a shredded mask.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
It is not quite the classic meet-cute, though cute enough, contusions aside: Stan is less concerned about his head than with the location of Cynthia’s bathroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
His security guard said he suffered back injuries as well as lacerations and contusions.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
Of the 59 injuries Zagelbaum chronicled, 30 were abrasions or lacerations to the eyelid, 17 contusions to the eyelid or periorbital region, seven were corneal abrasions, three were orbital fractures and two were unspecified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The many serious patients they send straight to a stabilization clinic, but here they treat many concussions, contusions and frostbite.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
There were contusions on his face, but he was conscious.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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