injure
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Persistent oxidative stress can injure proteins, fats, and DNA and has been associated with aging and many chronic diseases.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
It hit a toolshed and did not injure anyone, although it was carrying explosives.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
For critic Jamieson, highlights include Jamie Dornan's rugby sketch, in which he goes to elaborate lengths to injure himself, and Traitors spoof The Great Big Crab Man.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Federal prosecutors said while many people were peacefully demonstrating against immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles County last summer, some people sought to use violence to obstruct, impede or injure officers conducting the enforcement operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
“Perhaps there are too many or it does not dare, for it might injure those who are blameless. But Yishan will watch out for you.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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Higgins on X wrote that the bill as written “reveals and injures thousands of innocent people,” such as witnesses and family members.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
His phone rings during a moment of silence for a deceased patient and he injures his finger moving a patient off a gurney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
No major injures were reported in that crash.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025
Sepsis arises when the body has an extreme response to an infection and injures its own tissues and organs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
In so doing he injures only those whose fields and houses have been taken away and given to the new inhabitants, who are only a small part of that dominion.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Police arrived and found Summers injured on a street adjacent to the mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The hospital is the primary location for treating troops injured in combat in the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In another finding, the study said injured e-bike riders tend to be younger than those hurt on traditional bikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
At least 118 police personnel were also injured, Delhi Police said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Before he died in 1883, he confessed to Samuel Cox Jr. that he had known all along that the injured stranger at his door was John Wilkes Booth.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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The June 24 disaster—which devastated this coastal region, killing at least 4,118 and injuring some 17,000, with 30,000 still missing—exposed the deep failures of the country’s public-health system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
There were early concerns for Djokovic when he pulled up and immediately called for the trainer after injuring his lower left leg at 4-4 in the first set.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The 38-year-old Messi had not featured for Argentina in the build-up to their title defence after injuring a hamstring playing for Inter Miami in late May.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
And in 1989, thousands had to flee when poisonous chlorine gas leaked from a 30-ton tank in Ventura County, injuring about 20 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
He reached one of the giant robot pelican suit’s giant robot pelican feet and kicked it, injuring his own toes.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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