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blister

[blis-ter] / ˈblɪs tər /


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Right-hander Roki Sasaki is working back from a blister on his middle finger and is penciled in to return from the IL next week against the Padres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Choi’s advice was to go the other direction: blister them, puree them, drown them in vinegar or chili, add something sweet, blend them into sauces, make them taste like the foods you already crave.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

His signature victory was a record-setting blister up Alpe d’Huez in which he roared through costumed, enthusiastic revelers on his way to a fifth stage win.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"Popping the blister relieved the pressure but it was swollen and bruised, so it's just sore," McIlroy said after playing the back nine on Wednesday.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Most of it was filled with a monster blister.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Her symptoms worsened into adulthood with tears, blisters and sores.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The nurse wrote that patients were arriving with headaches, rashes and blisters, “we believe, due to the chemicals being used to spray.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

According to the NHS, warning signs include severe pain, redness, blisters, changes in skin colour and vomiting.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

I hoe till I got blisters on both hands, sweat pouring down my back.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Pike is currently in critical condition on a ventilator, with burned and blistered arms, according to her lawyers.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

The lawyer said medics were "working to save Ms. Pike's life" after she arrived with both arms "swollen, burned, and blistered."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Among this year’s participants was WSJ’s achy, blistered Xavier Martinez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The gold-plated figure she’d won for “Fantastic Beasts” was warped and blackened by heat, its surface blistered and twisted like something pulled from a furnace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

The sun had not yet blistered the sidewalks of Maycomb, but it soon would.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Carter had rejected the administration’s request for immediate intervention in a blistering Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

In September he won the half-marathon at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in a blistering 58:06, one of the 10 fastest times in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

As Anna Holmes recently pointed out in her blistering New Yorker essay, more than half of millennials have had parental help purchasing their home.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

On the one hand, earnings growth has reached a blistering pace typically only seen during the early stages of an economic recovery.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

The angry, blistering sun did not let me.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez


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