tongue-tie
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Fiona and Ben were told by a midwife that they would be better off getting tongue-tie surgery, also known as a lingual frenotomy, privately, as there would be a long wait on the NHS.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
An estimated 7% of babies are diagnosed with a condition called tongue-tie, in which the connection between the tongue and the floor of the mouth is too strong and limits tongue movement.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
Reporters traveled to Boise, Idaho, and observed tongue-tie surgery in Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
Additional training is provided which includes recognising tongue-tie, its treatments and support.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2022
The child was taken to a physician who operated and corrected the tongue-tie.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
Even when she became tongue-tied and had to laugh her way out of it, her slips became endearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
At times, Raman was tongue-tied trying to answer simple questions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Titled Shy, it describes how Rapp became tongue-tied around the British musician when they toured together in 2023.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Still others remained tongue-tied about the “quandary” at hand, as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio put it.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2024
“I see you’re quite tongue-tied by the honor. That’s right, George, you boys shall personally preside over the completion of my project. If all goes well, that is.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Still, Americans are indebted to Canadians when it comes to this tongue-tying fruit.
From Time ● Aug. 21, 2014
Americans, he believed, should go wherever they wanted to go, although he said so in a potentially tongue-tying sentence: "Let us go on whithersoever our destiny may lead us."
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2011
Best of all though may be the new woodchuck spot, once and for all answering the age old tongue-tying question "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2010
But it also has other attributes prized by veteran excuse makers: it's simple, requiring no complicated, tongue-tying explanation, universally understood, vaguely virtuous and hard to check.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor Peg tried again at the absurd tongue-tying name.
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
