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Recent Examples of bruised
Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
This helps keep the leaves from becoming bruised and turning brown.
Choose a flaky salt to season the greens.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2025
Though lymphatic massage uses gentle motions, there may still be an ouch factor on bruised or swollen areas of the body.
—Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
Curry has been nursing a bruised tailbone since a hard fall during the Warriors’ victory over Toronto on March 20, the team’s last home game.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Virginia was banged up and bruised and returned home.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
This helps keep the leaves from becoming bruised and turning brown.
Choose a flaky salt to season the greens.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2025
Though lymphatic massage uses gentle motions, there may still be an ouch factor on bruised or swollen areas of the body.
—Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
Curry has been nursing a bruised tailbone since a hard fall during the Warriors’ victory over Toronto on March 20, the team’s last home game.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bruised
Adjective
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Until the world contains only liberal democracies, Washington can hardly avoid seeking blemished friends.—
Hal Brands,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Feb. 2024
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Throop returned to his hometown in 1990 to take stock of its blemished environment.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2022
Verb
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Rolling the pastry around the carrots and sealing the ends creates the traditional Wellington shape; decorative slits in the dough add visual interest and allow steam to escape while the log cooks.—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Then, fearing he'd be blamed, Tripp stole a knife from the office of pastry chef Didier Gotthard (Bronson Pinchot) and used it to slit A.B.'s wrists in order to make his death look more like a suicide.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Photos taken by the Associated Press on Sunday show broken windows and a damaged door at the front of the residence.—
Chandelis Duster,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2025
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In Okonkwo’s case, a broken wrist kept the former Arsenal ’keeper out for 11 league games.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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So much so that movement speeds of loads (up or down) were slashed by 85% compared to common-or-garden backpacks.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In the street in front of his house, Cooper — the homeowner with the tainted water — met Wilson studying a flare through her camera.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
17 Mar. 2025
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The man widely called the true winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election said on Tuesday that his son-in-law had been kidnapped by hooded men in Caracas, the capital.—
Genevieve Glatsky,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Throughout the nineteen-sixties, the Chairman hacked away at the bureaucracy, focussing especially on ministries dealing with culture, education, and public health.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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Making matters worse, the Polish Space Agency reported it was hacked on March 2.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bruised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruised. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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