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heals

  • present tense form of heal (3rd person singular).

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If I could boil my formula for the future of dementia care into two words, it would be this: Hope heals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

Holloway, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said: "I wanted to just move on, however my lovely mum suggested that I don't delete my stuff just yet because you never know how time heals you."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

But time heals all boring Main Events and fans were not ready to see Cena go out with a whimper in his final match.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

In 1986, an article in the New Journal of Medicine by Dr. Harold Dvorak suggested that cancer behaves very much like a wound that never heals.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

“That ain’t a permanent heal. You gotta be careful with it till yer body heals the rest, okay?”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness