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  • present participle of heal.
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healing

[hee-ling] / ˈhi lɪŋ /


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It’s especially gentle and accessible to people with disabilities, those healing injuries and older adults.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

While healing from their losses, they hustled, working as caregivers, nannies, Uber drivers and house cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

For Asare, true reparatory justice must prioritise human connection and healing over financial transactions.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The healing power of music is here, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Sela had placed herb poultices and healing salves on all the Warlord’s wounds.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Video tapes of Joshua's healings were circulating among evangelical churches throughout Europe and Africa in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

From BBC Jan. 7, 2024

They pray, visit various chapels and enter a small room where crutches hang from the wall alongside written testimonials of healings.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2023

Each village had several shamans, who specialized in various divinations, healings and funeral rites.

From Scientific American Jan. 5, 2023

There will be healings and miracles, and “some of our favorite Bible stories come to life.”

From Washington Times Dec. 28, 2022

This should come as no surprise, for in Miss Lumley’s day, séances, Ouija boards, hypnotic healings, and the like were very much in fashion.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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