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vein

[vayn] / veɪn /




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Earlier this month, Hurts traveled for a game in London, where he was first diagnosed with a superficial vein thrombosis in his left calf.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Soon Marshall’s tailrace was universally acknowledged to be the doorway to the Mother Lode, “a snakelike vein of quartz-encapsulated gold that extended for more than 150 miles along the western edge” of the Sierra Nevada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Pike, he said, had helped the execution team find a vein in her arm, and she was kind and polite while she was being injected.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The people tasked with the job of finding a usable vein and securing an IV are not phlebotomists with specialized training or nurses.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

My dad tries to pacify my mother, but the bulging vein in his forehead tells me he is far from relaxed.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback Jalen Hurts is one of the nearly 1 million Americans who will get severe blood clots in their veins or lungs each year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

That was the case with hydraulic mining in the West, which involved aiming a torrent of water under high pressure to blast away soil and boulders to expose the underlying gold veins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

They use optical sensors to detect blood pulsing through your veins, and machine-learning models to analyze the data to estimate blood pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The court filing described pentobarbital as a caustic substance that burns skin, tissue and veins.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Where his are the color of a kinda-old penny, hers, though brown-spotted, are so pale he can see the blue of her veins.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone


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