scar
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German second seed Zverev took over as the clear front-runner to claim the Coupe des Mousquetaires - but he has scar tissue from three previous Grand Slam final defeats.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Dizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New Delhi relies on for protection from furnace-hot desert winds.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Abrupt, unwelcome occurrences scar our autonomy and cripple our illusion of independence; the question of what went wrong falls on our shoulders, another loop to languish inside.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
He has a prominent scar running across the top of his head from the surgery.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
He had a long scar down one side of his face that just missed his eye, and one of his ears looked like something had taken a bite out of it.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Vocabulary lists containing scar
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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