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hamstring

[ham-string] / ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ /


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Trost started at right tackle, but he left after two series because of a hamstring injury.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Hodgkinson, fighting to recover from two hamstring tears earlier in the year, was joined by the ever-improving Hunter Bell in setting sights on the same 800m gold.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Adams was sidelined the next game and the final two games of the regular season because of a hamstring injury.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

Rodri missed much of the 2024-25 campaign after sustaining a serious knee injury, and parts of last season were disrupted by a hamstring issue.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

I tried to follow his directions to the letter, but I felt a shooting pain through the front of my right quadriceps and down the back of my left hamstring.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

In practice, this means “exercises that build your butt while minimizing growth in the quads, hamstrings and thighs.”

From Salon May 8, 2026

And then you leave comments on it - maybe 'my hamstrings are sore from training yesterday'.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

Uphills exact a harsh toll on an athlete’s hamstrings, glutes and calves while spiking their heart rate.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

If you’re sitting at a desk all day, you’re not contracting your calves, quads and hamstrings and fluid pools in the ankles due to gravity.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2025

She turned to him as they made their way to the dressing room, stopping right beside a couple of people stretching their hamstrings, who paused to give them thumbs-up signs before resuming their stretches.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Cleage’s play, it must be said, is hamstrung with exposition.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Private equity’s pileup of unsold investments—just shy of 33,000 companies globally worth more than $3 trillion—has hamstrung fundraising and strained relations with fund investors waiting to get money back.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

The longer time you have to invest your $100,000, the more likely you won’t be hamstrung by a correction.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

But OpenAI's ability to keep raising the capital needed to operate is hamstrung by its convoluted governance structure -- in which a nonprofit board retains ultimate control over a for-profit arm.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

We are hamstrung every minute of every day, because we must always consider whether we are gleaning too much or too little.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

“My biggest concern is that they may be hamstringing themselves in developing their model,” CFRA’s Snyder said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

Bank executives say rewards programs could drain their firms of deposits, hamstringing their ability to lend.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

But it would take another two months for me to shake the thought of myself as an employee — an image that was hamstringing my income.

From Salon Jan. 11, 2025

He cited events such as the California wildfires, affecting rail in the state, and flooding in New York City, hamstringing the city’s critical subway system.

From Seattle Times Apr. 11, 2024

He would as soon think of hamstringing a faithful horse.

From The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard




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