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• Decades later, testing during the appeal process showed the stains weren’t made by blood, but some inorganic substance.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
• Some were found to have been pierced by bullets and stained by blood.
  — Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• Friends aren’t tied to us by blood, like family, or an oath, like a spouse.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
• My tribe requires that members be at least one-eighth Jamestown S'Klallam by blood.
  — Leah Myers, The Atlantic, 21 June 2023
• She also is first seen in the film unclogging a toilet with her bare hands, and by the end, she’s stained by blood more than once.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
• The gala raised over $3.5 million to help those affected by blood cancer.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Doctors were able to figure out that his heart attack was caused by blood clots and removed them.
  — Essence, 2 Oct. 2021
• Then again, if Chris had not been stopped by blood clots the first time, there well might never have been such a Heat thing as Hassan Whiteside.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• Taquet suspects these effects could have been caused by blood clots in the lungs, which can also lead to low oxygen levels in the brain.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• But the term is also apt given that Migos were a trio related by blood.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Her best friend stopped at a Scheel’s in Wichita and told them about Dean’s shoes — a gift from her 22-year-old stepson that were ruined by blood.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
• The lungs, legs, liver and kidneys can also be affected by blood clots, the Mayo Clinic says.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
• Family isn't measured by blood, it's measured by what's in your heart.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 28 Apr. 2023
• Those striking results were marred by blood cancers that arose in three out of 67 patients who received eli-cel.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
• We may not be related by blood, but we're connected by love.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 4 May 2020
• The agency announced plans for the change in January and said this week the new approach can now be implemented by blood banks.
  — Matthew Perrone, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• The officers saw a man lying under the seats of a subway car, not moving and surrounded by blood, the report said.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Fond du Lac reservations, so we are related by blood too.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• Our relationship is a friendship, attached by love and bound by blood, with enough pictures to fill five scrapbooks at this point.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2022
• Ralsten called up an 11-year-old DMV photo of Kerrigan and compared it to the face of the corpse, whose features were obscured by blood and vomit.
  — Christopher Goffardstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Despite the serial-killer lineage, the kid abhors violence and is deeply upset by blood — at least, that’s what Glen thinks.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
• Having plants around the workspace also reduced stress as measured by blood pressure readings.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 21 July 2022
• The image of the truck in my eyeball, for example, is upside down, obscured by blood vessels, riddled with blind spots and floaters, blurred by my movements.
  — Kc Cole, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
• Gobewoe was told that her death was caused by blood clots, which can be a dangerous complication of Covid-19.
  — Judith Graham, CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
• Succession was about the people adjacent to Logan Roy, by paycheck or by blood.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 29 May 2023
• The action, if that’s the right word, is focused on the slow, agonizing process of bleeding to death, narrated by blood trickling from the hands and feet of a crucified Jesus.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• This occurs by blood capillaries growing through old bone, which is dissolved and replaced by new bone.
  — Roger S. Seymour, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• One serious type of clotting event cited by Germany's health ministry was cerebral vein thrombosis, a rare stroke caused by blood clots in the brain.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2021
• Chris Bosh, who figured to be a central figure in that title hunt, had his career cut short by blood clots, and Miami scraped by for a few seasons as a middling team.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Her worried mother climbed through a window at her apartment and discovered her daughter's nude body on the floor, surrounded by blood.
  — CBS News, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024