regrow

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Mice can regenerate the tips of their digits, and humans can sometimes regrow fingertips if the nailbed remains intact after injury, allowing skin, flesh, and bone to regenerate.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Scientists are developing new drugs to regrow hair, crowding into a market that’s barely evolved in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Then, when a wildfire comes through and natives begin to regrow, they’re chomped back down, creating a vicious cycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

But the province's hills still bear the scars of bygone mining practices, with bare patches of red soil visible where vegetation has struggled to regrow.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

In gathering wild yams, they cut off most of the edible tuber but replaced the stems and tops of the tubers in the ground so that the tubers would regrow.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond