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muscle

[muhs-uhl] / ˈmʌs əl /
NOUN
large fibers of animal body
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Arvinas is pursuing two candidates for Parkinson’s disease and for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a rare disorder that leads to progressive muscle weakness and wasting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

During puberty when children have growth spurts, they do need more protein because their body is growing rapidly, building new muscle and bone mass.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Although emerging evidence suggests compression garments genuinely affect some markers of recovery, this is unlikely to directly restore muscle function.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

"Anyone with fever, unusual tiredness, muscle or joint pains, vomiting, diarrhoea or unexplained bleeding should seek care promptly at the nearest health facility," Kenya's health ministry said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

All these years, she had believed that if workers stuck together, they’d win a fair share of the money made by their muscle and sweat.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

Another 2026 study in Cell Metabolism identified a protein called Mimecan that helps skeletal muscles communicate with the hypothalamus and brown fat, a specialized tissue involved in generating body heat.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

A 2018 study published in Nature indicates max-cushion shoes actually increase the total load on muscles, bones and joints compared with more-moderately cushioned shoes in part because the foot is on the ground longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Christian Wilson, from Bromsgrove, has verbal dyspraxia - a difficulty in placing muscles in the correct position to produce speech.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

According to Mayo Clinic, the condition causes temporary weakness or paralysis of facial muscles, and Brolin felt there was “nothing else to blame” for the symptoms.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

He didn’t know the way it pulled at all your muscles and created an anchor in the center of your chest.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

With the Wayans brothers firmly back in the driver’s seat, horror parody “Scary Movie” muscled its way past He-Man for the top spot at the box office this weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Prop Sarah Bern muscled her way over to level the scores on 20 minutes, before Meg Jones hacked on a loose ball and Ellie Kildunne gathered to stretch away on the half hour.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Anthropic, run by the former OpenAI executive Dario Amodei, has muscled further into financial services since it launched a suite of tools catering to banks, financial-technology firms, and others last year.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Yet Musk muscled through, and his lore was born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Her back was densely muscled and her claws long and sharply pointed, and with her came a sense of overwhelming power.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Nineteen-year-old sensation Cooper Flagg appeared to have won it for Dallas, muscling through Wendell Carter Jr for a four-point lead with 37 seconds left.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

That signals that geopolitical risks could be muscling their way into asset prices, potentially overshadowing positives from the economic cycle and corporate earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 1, 2026

More recently, the daredevil actor has focused on warm-up stretches, muscling his eight-film franchise to its explosive finale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026

When Atkinson miscued Mitchell Starc, Carey raced first-slip fielder Marnus Labuschagne back towards the boundary, muscling out his team-mate when both threw themselves towards the ball.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

He was around the back of the bus, muscling a heavy backpack into the trunk.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart


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