lump
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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday announced he would be operated "in the coming days" for a lump on his lung, saying it had been located "at a very early stage".
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
For most of medical history, doctors waited for cancer to announce itself with a lump or some other symptom, then went looking for it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Martinez told legislators at a hearing this year how his wife had found a lump in her breast and asked for an appointment with her longtime caregiver at Kaiser to examine it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Most took sporadic lump sums at times when they had large expenses, or they took one annual distribution once they hit RMD age — and took only the amount required.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The lump filling my throat grows larger and larger until he’s out of view.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Rescue officers attended the beach earlier and located a number of lumps of the substance along the beach.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“When I take a bite, I chew through small lumps of egg, presumably scrambled by the hot butter,” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Stir the chocolate until it’s smooth with no lumps.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
He prodded moodily at the lumps of charred gray fish on his plate.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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