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as in family
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
in his mind, blood came before anything else, and he would not betray his criminal brother to the police
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as in ancestry
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
the language expert was certain that a young woman with such an upper-class accent had to be of royal blood
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as in soul
the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
in your blood you know this business deal just isn't right
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as in murder
the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life
blood will always have blood, and so the killing never ends
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Recent Examples of blood
The Index tracks a bunch of metrics, including sleep duration, sleep stages (light, deep, and REM sleep), heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, breathing variations, and skin temperature changes.
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 19 June 2025
Severe infections can also include aches, headaches, elevated fever, lethargy, rashes, and blood in the urine or stool.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 June 2025
The death of a 9-year-old girl who became unresponsive after dental surgery in San Diego County has been ruled an accident resulting from a rare blood disorder, according to autopsy report by the San Diego County Medical Examiner‘s Office.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
Type of Cholesterol Total cholesterol Non-HDL (level of all unhealthy cholesterol in your blood minus HDL)
LDL
Too High
Above 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood (mg/dL)
Above 130 mg/dL
Above 100 mg/dL
Preventing High Cholesterol
Adopting a healthy lifestyle helps prevent high cholesterol.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 19 June 2025
Severe infections can also include aches, headaches, elevated fever, lethargy, rashes, and blood in the urine or stool.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 June 2025
The death of a 9-year-old girl who became unresponsive after dental surgery in San Diego County has been ruled an accident resulting from a rare blood disorder, according to autopsy report by the San Diego County Medical Examiner‘s Office.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025
Type of Cholesterol Total cholesterol Non-HDL (level of all unhealthy cholesterol in your blood minus HDL)
LDL
Too High
Above 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood (mg/dL)
Above 130 mg/dL
Above 100 mg/dL
Preventing High Cholesterol
Adopting a healthy lifestyle helps prevent high cholesterol.
—Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blood
Noun
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Giving way Construction of a KB Home single family housing development is shown in Menifee, California, U.S., September 4, 2024.—
Sara Salinas,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
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Over the course of one fateful summer on Beechwood, the Sinclairs’ private island just off of Martha’s Vineyard, the horrifying truth about what happened to Cadence — along with a slew of other family secrets — is finally brought to light.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
18 June 2025
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People of Mexican ancestry who live in border counties along the Rio Grande, for example, are likely more hawkish on immigration than, say, a Dominican American in Washington Heights in NYC.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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People with African ancestry tend to have high porosity hair.12 Also, people with gray hair or light-colored hair and people of older age are more likely to have highly porous hair.12 Characteristics of High Porosity Hair High porosity hair can have various characteristics.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Do not let your body define your soul, let your soul find your body.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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Everything in my gut, everything in my soul, knows that this is the right look for this occasion.—
Essence,
Essence,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The show’s title refers to these haunting clues — a sequence of nine puzzle pieces, each foretelling a new murder, and each fitting into a larger picture that gradually reveals the truth behind a decade-old cover-up.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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Redlands police chief describes tense standoff with nudist colony murder suspect Redlands Police Chief Rachel Tolber tells reporters in a September news briefing how double murder suspect Michael Sparks allegedly tried to shoot himself during a standoff with officers before his gun misfired.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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Instead of just making the Berk tribe inexplicably multiracial, this little bit of world-building gives an explanation to the (slightly) more diverse casting.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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The tribe bought the more than 500-acre property in April to give to the Sho-Pai for the project.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
13 June 2025
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Previous studies have proven the existence of two lineages, northern Native American and southern Native American, which developed after people first arrived on the continent across an ice bridge from Siberia and started to move south.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
11 June 2025
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What has that looked like in practice, sharing the history, sonic lineages, and socio-political context involved in the making of electronic music?—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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Rather than solely leaning on designing for moneyed families and those with means to drop thousands on new pieces each season, the designer opts to create from his heart.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
22 June 2025
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Roth went right for Rubin’s heart, invoking the Paul Skenes Topps MLB Debut Patch autographed one-of-one card that famously sold for $1.11 million to Dick’s Sporting Goods in March.—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Three days after O'Keefe's death, Read was arrested as a suspect on several charges, including manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of a personal injury or crime, per The Boston Globe.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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The investigation of Read's case led to investigations into the investigators, leading to an audit into the Canton Police Department and the firing of a state police homicide detective.—
Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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“Blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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