lifeblood

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Recent Examples of lifeblood But perhaps nothing provides a better snapshot of what defines Veach and his front office than the lifeblood of the NFL Draft, which will be held this year April 24-26 in Green Bay. Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025 Data is the lifeblood of AI, yet 64% of companies cite data quality as their top data integrity challenge. Rohit Anabheri, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 In the era of streaming, smaller productions churned out at an exceptionally high rate are the lifeblood of platforms like Netflix, Paramount, HBO, and Hulu. Zoltan Kesz, Oc Register, 7 May 2025 Vampires are the ones sweeping in and sucking the lifeblood out of residents. Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeblood
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Noun
  • Narrating this account of her brief life, Emily provides a sharp perspective on the penury and isolation that created such anguish — and such inspiration — for the Brontë sisters.
    Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Celeste Dalla Porta stars as the titular Parthenope, a young woman attending college who starts an illicit relationship with a professor that leads to a number of striking choices in her life.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • New fitness trainer Yutaka Nakamura helped here as Raducanu refused to yield to her opponent or the clay surface which can sap the soul as well as stamina.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • In the Roman Catholic Church, popes have shown openness to evolution while insisting that the human soul is a divine creation.
    Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties are now symbols of neglect, where economic despair has replaced the industrious and seemingly indomitable spirit that had once defined them.
    Daniel A.C. McBride, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
  • As actual spirits, released from their corporeal form, or visions conjured up by the eyes or minds of those who see them—or something else?
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The character, for all his dramatic shortcomings, has an inner light.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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