as in lumps
a small rounded mass of swollen tissue
the swelling at the site of the insect bite was not too concerning
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Recent Examples of swellings
This microscopic roundworm lays its eggs in root tissues, causing swellings or galls to develop on infected roots.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
Infection is rapid, causing swellings in the lymph nodes (buboes) and leading to septicaemia and pulmonary infection.
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Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
21 June 2026
Infection is rapid, causing swellings in the lymph nodes (buboes) and leading to septicaemia and pulmonary infection.
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Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swellings
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Lenders will take the keys and private equity will take its lumps, as designed.
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In facultative endosymbiosis, the symbiont can live independently, as in the case of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria in the root nodules of leguminous plants.
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Her scans were clear until the three-month mark, when her doctors found suspicious nodules in her lungs.
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The beating left at least 30 bruises on Joanna’s torso and legs, and a belt pattern was present among the injuries, according to the assessment of a pathologist described in the affidavit.
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When bruises are noticed on their daughter’s body at school, their five children are taken away from them and a legal saga ensues.
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And there's going to be some bumps in the road, for sure.
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At this distal end, which forms your elbow joint with your radius and ulna, are two bony bumps, called epicondyles.
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Custom chip design at today’s most advanced manufacturing nodes costs hundreds of millions of dollars before a product ships.
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Take a cutting between the nodes – the place where the leaves grow out from.
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“Swellings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swellings. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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