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: a soothing or healing salve : ointment
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Nevertheless, our ancestors had some inkling that different substances, when applied as ointments, unguents, or pastes, could protect or heal skin from a range of injuries, including sun damage.
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Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But the notion of an alien worm producing its own mind-melting unguent doesn’t seem especially bonkers.
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Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
But the institutional gangrene to which Levin draws attention seems to me to go beyond what the unguents in our current chrismatories can heal.
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Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
The transition from handset juggernaut to invisible technological unguent was not without casualties.
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Natasha Frost, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
It should be noted that this soothing unguent is under some fire.
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Ross Kenneth Urken, Town & Country, 26 Sep. 2017
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“Unguent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unguent. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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unguent
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un·guent
ˈəŋ-gwənt also ˈən-jənt
: a soothing or healing salve : ointment
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