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Recent Examples of lifeblood
At 80 or 70 or 60, expectations created are the lifeblood of sporting hope.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Living among poets, Brainard began his first forays into writing, which were published in Berrigan’s journal C, and also in other small presses and publications that were the lifeblood of the period’s innovative writing.
—David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Retail spending, which is the lifeblood of the economy, is waning, while measures of consumer confidence show a sharp deterioration of late.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Your net profit — calculated by subtracting expenses from sales — is the lifeblood of your side hustle.
—Dr. Jenny Woo, Contributor, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Living among poets, Brainard began his first forays into writing, which were published in Berrigan’s journal C, and also in other small presses and publications that were the lifeblood of the period’s innovative writing.
—David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
Retail spending, which is the lifeblood of the economy, is waning, while measures of consumer confidence show a sharp deterioration of late.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Your net profit — calculated by subtracting expenses from sales — is the lifeblood of your side hustle.
—Dr. Jenny Woo, Contributor, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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Find the little trans child that is ruining your life.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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By Jenna Ryu To say the last few years of Olivia Munn’s life have been a rollercoaster doesn’t fully capture what she’s been through.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Music hears everything — the heart, the soul, the past, the future.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
7 Apr. 2025
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Not a soul in the hockey world even considers Ovechkin the best player of his era, a title that goes to his longtime rival, Sidney Crosby.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Her work sheds light on issues such as human trafficking and systemic oppression, and Shakti hopes to empower other women through her paintings.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN,
24 July 2024
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The Milky Way’s earliest pieces In a recent paper, researchers using the Gaia space telescope identified two streams of stars, named Shakti and Shiva, each of which contains a total mass of around 10 million Suns and which are thought to have merged into the Milky Way around 12 billion years ago.—
Georgina Torbet,
Ars Technica,
10 June 2024
Noun
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Afternoon Tea highlighting the spirit of Thailand is available at hotels in Bangkok, London at Park Lane and Singapore.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
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Derik Faye, alongside Richard Branson and Howard Schultz, embodies the spirit of triumph over circumstances, offering enduring lessons on navigating risk, embracing change, overcoming setbacks, adapting to sacrifice, and maintaining a realistic perspective.—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Give your inner light a chance to shine, touch people’s lives and enrich the world around you.—
Eugenia Last,
The Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2024
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This effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.—
Mark Gozonsky,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2024
Noun
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And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.—
Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
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And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2021
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“Lifeblood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeblood. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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