Example Sentences

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Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that affects millions of people each year and can occur in many different joints throughout the body.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

Participants can then get a high-intensity, low-impact workout that’s easy on the joints and requires extra balance, firing up the core.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

New therapies aim to regenerate damaged joints for arthritis and detect breast cancer recurrence earlier using circulating tumor DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

As joints age or experience injury or excess stress from obesity, chondrocytes begin producing inflammatory molecules and breaking down collagen, the main structural component of cartilage.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl