ruddle
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
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Dr Ruddle added that if you cannot release the blockage by hand, the next step is to encourage the child to cough, if possible.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
"In older children, it's much more like adults - we use abdominal thrusts or what people would often have referred to as the Heimlich manoeuvre," Dr Ruddle said.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
His final published newspaper article was a reminiscence of his high school newspaper adviser, Mary Lee Ruddle, who died weeks before he did at 95.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
Today the school is headed by benignly sharp Daniel A. Ruddle, who has been its scientific tutor for 30 years and would make an impressive stand-in for Mr. Chips.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Mr Ruddle hinted something of the kind, last night,” I said.
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
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