gauze
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Her upper body rotates over the chair back and she gently pulls up one of her transparent gauze sleeves as if preparing for a pleasant conversation with us, her audience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Chapman had applied gauze to Williams' mouth, not a scalpel.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
At Mississippi State, he once broke his nose in a game against Alabama, only to stuff gauze in both nostrils and return to convert a third down.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024
On Monday night, former President Donald Trump emerged at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee for his first public showing since Saturday’s shooting wearing a square gauze bandage over his right ear.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2024
The doctor spoke in a low, curt voice to the nurse, and she hurried to a side table and brought back some rolls of gauze and silver instruments.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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