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healed

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verb

past tense of heal
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Recent Examples of healed
Verb
With Julie’s return, family secrets and wounds that never fully healed will resurface —but so will a strange phenomenon from which no one will emerge unscathed. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2026 Bateman said he's received thousands of messages from viewers, with everything from parents reaching out for advice to people sharing how the video healed something in them. Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 28 July 2026 Ginn was shut down from throwing while the blister healed, and is set to throw a bullpen Monday afternoon. Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026 Brown — whose skin is now fully healed, but remains sensitive — has also stopped using tanning beds, now utilizes sunscreen and opts for shady spots instead of lying directly under the sun. Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026 That injury has long healed — but Carapaz is still seemingly incapable of sitting in his saddle, permanently on his pedals and on the attack, chasing rivals, stages, and the polka-dot jersey. Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026 Rainwater, or the water of life, as it was known in Russia, healed all wounds, made lost limbs grow back, turned the old young again, and raised the dead up from the grave. Literary Hub, 22 July 2026 Princess Itaweret’s skeleton showed healed fractures to both her ribs and foot, while multiple individuals displayed nutritional deficiencies and infections. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026 Sotheby's said several ribs and belly bones show fractures that healed before the dinosaur died, while bite marks on parts of the skull and other bones may have been caused by scavenging. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for healed
Adjective
  • After a fracture, the body moves through overlapping stages of repair that include inflammation, formation of new tissue and, later, remodeling of the repaired area.
    Priya Bhardwaj, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • To help prevent future settling, monitor the area weekly and add 1/2 inch or less of your soil mix as a top dressing to the repaired area.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • There was some evidence that certain patients could be cured with only one injection rather than three, which might increase the available supply.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 31 July 2026
  • Gas Station Biscuits and Publix Are Sacred There’s nothing that can’t be cured by a chicken biscuit or Pub Sub from Publix, that much anyone who went to a Southern college knows to be true.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • However, by Monday morning officials said many more people were aboard than listed, and that the number of people still missing was unclear after 229 people were rescued and five bodies recovered.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Roman Reigns hit a third spear and the referee recovered in time to count to three.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Saudi Arabia’s ability to get oil out via an alternate path had alleviated a lot of that stress.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • Friedman might feel more comfortable denying the Arenado trade reports at this point, given that Muncy has alleviated fan concerns and Arenado has joined a division rival instead.
    Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Adjective
  • But over the years, the two mended fences.
    Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Yet while those aforementioned creatures still get rehabilitated on a regular basis, they’re now greatly surpassed in popular visibility by a cannibal undead that didn’t even exist in the genre until more recent decades.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026
  • The plan rehabilitated the traffic conditions after the first game.
    Zuri Primos July 11, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • Luis Morales relieved Basso and allowed a big rally in the eighth that saw the Tigers bat around and culminated in a Dillon Dingler grand slam.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Regan relieved him, and the Dodgers scored four runs to win the game.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Adjective
  • In 2024 researchers in Greece conducted a study on the performance of reconstructed sets of Mycenaean armor.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026
  • Its reconstructed Cryo-Chamber thermal housing channels continuous cooling directly to core hardware.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026

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