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splint

[splint] / splɪnt /
NOUN
support
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NOUN
sliver
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"I've never experienced such terrible pain in my life. I made a splint and crutches out of wood," he writes.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

He wanted to keep playing, though, so trainers applied a splint that was essentially a popsicle stick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Jones survived the strongest hurricane in Jamaican history while he was injured, wearing a homemade splint on his right leg from a fracture he suffered during a biking accident before Melissa hit.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

Betts visited a hand specialist Monday, where he was fitted with a splint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Dr. Mudd says he’s going to splint the leg.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Milwaukee Brewers: Huntington Beach Marina High product Jake Bauers has suffered from shin splints almost all season, and the pain has kept him from playing the outfield lately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Eight-year-old Ronnie, from Saffron Walden in Essex, has cerebral palsy and loved watching the England international so much he had an image of him put on his leg splints.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

Every second that Frankie and Z spent winding duct tape around the splints felt like an hour.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

“They were able to put his finger back together and it’s splinted and he’s day-to-day,” Redick said Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

What he did recall was having his arm splinted in a comfortable position and making plans to have surgery the next day at a hospital in the Chicagoland area unaffiliated with Froedtert South.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2022

While our limbs and organs can heal, our public places often remain shattered, splinted back to working order only with the grotesque apparatus of surveillance and security.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022

Her legs were never given tourniquets or splinted.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022

“Ohh, that’s good, good, Mary, that’s good. If she splinted him already, he should be as good as new in, I don’t know, maybe a month.”

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

It was a very interesting nine-month tour of duty in military service, tactical training, and of course the medical aspect of evaluating injuries, administering morphine, splinting and stopping bleeding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Cross-examining Dr Evans, Mr Myers said: "If you really thought that splinting the diaphragm was a cause of death you would have stated that before today, wouldn't you?"

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022

When the records arrived, they showed the splinting that Shah remembered but not the treatment that was driving up his bill.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2022

A trauma nurse and a medical doctor were among the group of hikers and Justa said they helped tremendously with splinting, wrapping injuries and taking her vitals, for which he’s grateful.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2016

Sister Gladys and Dr. van Heerden were splinting the injured Vapostori's leg.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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