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Recent Examples of airway
These could all be symptoms of bronchitis, a condition that develops when the airways in your lungs become inflamed, or pneumonia, which causes your lungs to fill up with fluid or pus.
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Juno Demelo, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
Sleep apnea is a condition that causes a sleeper’s breathing to pause when the muscles of the throat relax too much and the airway collapses.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
The most severe cases are in infants, whose small airways can become more easily blocked, Schaffner said.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
Inhaling microplastics has also been noted as potentially damaging to human lungs and airways, with experts suggesting more research is needed to have a clearer idea of the impacts.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Juno Demelo, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
Sleep apnea is a condition that causes a sleeper’s breathing to pause when the muscles of the throat relax too much and the airway collapses.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
The most severe cases are in infants, whose small airways can become more easily blocked, Schaffner said.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
Inhaling microplastics has also been noted as potentially damaging to human lungs and airways, with experts suggesting more research is needed to have a clearer idea of the impacts.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airway
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In a nutshell, Tony miraculously survived 100% blockage in an artery that feeds oxygen to a major portion of the heart.Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
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With an ischemic stroke, a blood clot blocks a brain artery.Alexandria Nyembwe, PhD, RN, Health, 6 Nov. 2024
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Those viruses proceed to reproduce while infecting the cells lining our nasal passageways.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024
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Such lean staffing is something of a necessity: the Bowery Market, a onetime auto-body shop on a busy NoHo corner, hosts four near-microscopic food stalls arranged around a broad open-air passageway.Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement Only buses equipped with the technology will be able to utilize the roadway’s charging power.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Once the area was clear and safe, our team towed the units to get the roadway back open.Charna Flam, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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In Al-Nabi Chit, unlike many nearby places that have become ghost towns, the streets bustle with men, women, and children.Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Rich Graeter, Graeter's Ice Cream Company president and CEO Louis and Regina Graeter started making vanilla ice cream in a metal bucket on the streets of Cincinnati after the Civil War.Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2024
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Esther Gonzalez’s body was found in a snowpack off a highway near Banning, California, on Feb. 10, 1979, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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The fire erupted Wednesday morning in Ventura County and, fueled by ferocious Santa Ana winds and dry conditions, quickly exploded in size and jumped a highway toward homes, forcing more than 10,000 people to evacuate.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Traffic camera footage at 67th and Orangewood avenues showed two gray sedans speeding down the road a little after noon.Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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The games that are currently the furthest down the road are against Arizona State.Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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States and cities can work together to fix legacy highways — and federal support can help In Portland, Oregon, pretty much everyone seems to agree that 82nd Avenue, a major thoroughfare that the state manages, is a disaster.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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On dreary days, spend a few hours at the National Museum of Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland; when the weather cooperates, journey down the Royal Mile (Old Town’s main thoroughfare) and hike up to Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano and the highest peak in Holyrood Park.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2024
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Huge pipes will soon drain the aqueduct so the bypass can be connected.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2024
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And despite the junta’s tight grip over the internet, people have found ways to bypass censors.Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Airway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airway. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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