flesh and blood
noun
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An opponent that feels no pain or fear, and who is immune to gunfire, is not like one made of flesh and blood.
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David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The execution-style murders of a young man and woman from the Lower East Side were the brutal cost of a senseless gang war, but the killers also had a personal motive — vengeance for the killing of their own flesh and blood, according to law enforcement sources.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2024
Hard and dangerous work, men of flesh and blood assembling massive objects over a river.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
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David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The execution-style murders of a young man and woman from the Lower East Side were the brutal cost of a senseless gang war, but the killers also had a personal motive — vengeance for the killing of their own flesh and blood, according to law enforcement sources.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2024
Hard and dangerous work, men of flesh and blood assembling massive objects over a river.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Flesh and blood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flesh%20and%20blood. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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