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An opponent that feels no pain or fear, and who is immune to gunfire, is not like one made of flesh and blood.—David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024 Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be.—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024 The execution-style murders of a young man and woman from the Lower East Side were the brutal cost of a senseless gang war, but the killers also had a personal motive — vengeance for the killing of their own flesh and blood, according to law enforcement sources.—John Annese, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2024 Hard and dangerous work, men of flesh and blood assembling massive objects over a river.—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flesh and blood
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of flesh and blood was
before the 12th century
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