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balm

[bahm] / bɑm /




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Coover’s book is about baseball, but it is really about the escape that baseball—and any other would-be balm to a difficult present—can provide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

This is primarily transmitted through close, direct skin-to-skin contact with an infected person, such as kissing or sharing items contaminated with saliva, like lip balm or cutlery, according to the World Health Organization.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

All of that access can feel like a balm for the ever-embattled press, a deserved return to pride of place.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

We’ll take our balm where we can find it, especially now.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

I went ahead and got a glass of water and the balm, even though I knew she was right.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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