extremities
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The border frames an oddly shaped expanse that resembles a shredded kite, with San Pedro and Wilmington dangling from a string at the southern extremities.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024
These complications include carotid artery calcification, calcification of the abdominal aorta and peripheral vessels in the lower extremities, and small vessel disease in the feet.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024
“Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man’s blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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