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Recent Examples of bruised
Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Prior to the game, Jenkins’ biggest issue was likely a bruised ego.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
The Indianapolis Colts dropped 40 points on the Las Vegas Raiders, while the Houston Texans were able to pick apart the bruised and battered Baltimore Ravens’ defense for a 44-10 win.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Bottomley plays the bruised, angry young man with conviction, but the script never puts enough meat on the bones of his conflict to make Brian much more than a generic casualty of a troubled family.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Prior to the game, Jenkins’ biggest issue was likely a bruised ego.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
The Indianapolis Colts dropped 40 points on the Las Vegas Raiders, while the Houston Texans were able to pick apart the bruised and battered Baltimore Ravens’ defense for a 44-10 win.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Bottomley plays the bruised, angry young man with conviction, but the script never puts enough meat on the bones of his conflict to make Brian much more than a generic casualty of a troubled family.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bruised
Adjective
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The death toll rose to 13 after an injured victim died in the hospital, officials said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Authorities identified the 6-year-old victim as Rosangela Segundo-Osorio, the Tampa Bay Times and NBC affiliate WFLA reported, and her injured mother and brother as Catalina Osorio-Jimenez and Peter Segundo-Osorio, respectively.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The torrential rains and strong winds caused severe flooding that left several rural communities isolated and damaged buildings, roads, crops and infrastructure in poor areas that had already been hit by Hurricane Oscar last year.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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Cuba, still enduring the storm’s heavy rains and winds, reported widespread flooding, damaged buildings, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced, as authorities warned that Melissa could worsen the island’s ongoing economic crisis.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Some are clearly ironic, but the line between blind devotion and mocking derision is seriously mangled.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Ed Gein Story jumps around in time, in part to make connections to the other adaptations and in part because the biographical chronology is so mangled that any distraction is welcome.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Invariably, the oft-hurt Williamson is once again hurt, not even 10 games into the regular season.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Gen Z has seen the steepest decline in credit scores of any age group this year as student loans repayments, a tough job market, high inflation and fewer opportunities to build credit early hurt young borrowers, according to the inaugural FICO Score Credit Insights Report.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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For the second straight week, the Giants were gashed by the ground game.—
Charlotte Carroll,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The defense was gashed for 179 yards on the ground and will have six players sidelined this week on that side of the ball, including missing middle linebacker Jack Sanborn and safety Donovan Wilson for the second straight game.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The bodies had signs of binding the hands and feet, contortion of limbs, cut off fingertips and disfigured heads, according to Kaki.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2025
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For his role as Erik, the disfigured organist who haunts the catacombs of the Paris opera house, Chaney underwent a dramatic — and painful — transformation that involved pulling back his nostrils with piano wire to create a skeletal look.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told The Guardian that drone teams killed or wounded 18,000 Russian soldiers in September alone.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Kidd died at the scene, while another man who police hadn't named Monday was wounded and taken to an area hospital for treatment.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Bruised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruised. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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