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But on a flight back home from a chess tournament, his eardrums burst, forever altering the career path that once felt like destiny.—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025 Ear Pain or Pressure A feeling of fullness in your ears, pain, or muffled hearing often means fluid has built up behind your eardrum.—Health, 3 Dec. 2025 Others were long enough in the tooth to be trading the secondhand tales of burst eardrums and that particular Valentine-tinnitus that heads have collected like backpack patches since the band’s miracle years.—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025 Rey was out of action since April after suffering a torn groin and ruptured eardrum while in a six-man tag match with American Made and LWO.—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eardrum
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