1
as in respires
to inhale and exhale air
sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe
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2
as in lives
to have life
as long as I breathe, you will have a place to stay
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Recent Examples of breathes
And above all, treat visibility not as a one-time performance, but as a professional habit that breathes life into your career trajectory.
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Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Now the forest breathes with evil, and a vampire lord has risen.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Even if the future looks bleak, hope is not entirely lost for the Foundation, at least not while Gaal Dornick still breathes.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
In the heart of Columbia Tusculum, where Cincinnati's oldest neighborhood breathes with vibrant, historic energy, April Combs Mann struck a new kind of chord.
—Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Libra Season arrives on the 22nd and breathes fresh air into your creativity, love, and pleasure.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
With every stride, the leader breathes into the whistle clenched between his lips, producing a noise like the courting sigh of some prairie bird.
—Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 Aug. 2025
Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Now the forest breathes with evil, and a vampire lord has risen.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Even if the future looks bleak, hope is not entirely lost for the Foundation, at least not while Gaal Dornick still breathes.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
In the heart of Columbia Tusculum, where Cincinnati's oldest neighborhood breathes with vibrant, historic energy, April Combs Mann struck a new kind of chord.
—Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Libra Season arrives on the 22nd and breathes fresh air into your creativity, love, and pleasure.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
With every stride, the leader breathes into the whistle clenched between his lips, producing a noise like the courting sigh of some prairie bird.
—Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breathes
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Ballinger is the owner of a tree service business and lives with his family on a farm just outside of Saint Paul.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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That’s where your purpose lives.—
Marie Quintana,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, and not everyone with sleep apnea snores.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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When heavy rain occurs, there is a potential for flooding, particularly in areas that are low-lying or prone to floods.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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There is no product in that space other than the MG Cyberster.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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That insight has guided the team at Typhur, headquartered in San Jose at the heart of Silicon Valley, a location that inspires them to engineer precision with intuitive design.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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Red Hood is the moniker of Jason Todd, who exists within the Gotham City-Batman subset of DC characters.—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The concept, first proposed by US physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, suggests that the universe is just one of many universes that together form a larger one, which contains everything that exists, including space, time, matter, energy, and data.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Breathes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathes. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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