swollen
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"Popping the blister relieved the pressure but it was swollen and bruised, so it's just sore," McIlroy said after playing the back nine on Wednesday.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
A major factor in that possibility has been Washington’s interest cost, which has swollen to over $1 trillion annually.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
"Cells lacking the system lost their normal rectangular-like cell shape and instead became round and swollen," Springstein explains.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
My right arm had woken me up a few hours earlier, burning and swollen past the point where it even looked like an arm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Although my eyes were swollen nearly shut, I could see enough to know that Frederick and Bruno were standing over me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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