disk

Example Sentences

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Last fall, he underwent disk replacement surgery in his lower back.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The 50-year-old, who has had a series of operations in the last two years, has been sidelined since having an operation in October to replace a disk in his back.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

“That advice has not aged well—it has the practical value of a floppy disk today,” wrote Gill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

In his model, some of the exploded material falls back toward the magnetar and forms a tilted accretion disk.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman