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heal

[heel] / hil /


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The emotional intensity of the moment dissolves, the wounds heal, and time marches onward.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

A party that can’t diagnose itself can’t heal itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

It is evidence that firms are successfully adding capacity and hiring into a labor market that is finally beginning to heal.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

Rudd seems to have been told he’s in one, playing Rick’s humiliation so large that he looks unhinged, his face covered in cuts and bruises of his own doing that, distractingly, never seem to heal.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

His broken ribs and vertebrae would likely heal without surgery.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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