scar
Example Sentences
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Higher unemployment is particularly scarring for young workers since they miss out on gaining skills and experience at a crucial time of their professional lives, making it more difficult to catch up later.
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
And major historical events, like pandemics and wars, clearly leave their scars on people in different ways.
From Salon
The degenerative disease creates scar tissue that stiffens the lungs making it difficult to breathe and for oxygen to enter the bloodstream.
From BBC
After the success of “Everything in Its Path,” Erikson found himself continually summoned to other disaster sites by attorneys or advocates for those devastated communities who sensed similar existential scars forming.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
