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Recent Examples of airway
Peppermint Peppermint tea may be helpful as an expectorant, clearing mucus from your airways.
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Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2025
If the choking continues, go back to the five back blows followed by five abdominal thrusts until the airway is cleared or help has arrived.
—Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
Small fragments can cause laceration and punctures to digestive organs, such as the esophagus, stomach or intestines while metallic particles can become lodged in a person's throat and airways.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Obstructive sleep apnea happens when a person's upper airway becomes blocked and pauses breathing during sleep.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2025
If the choking continues, go back to the five back blows followed by five abdominal thrusts until the airway is cleared or help has arrived.
—Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
Small fragments can cause laceration and punctures to digestive organs, such as the esophagus, stomach or intestines while metallic particles can become lodged in a person's throat and airways.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Obstructive sleep apnea happens when a person's upper airway becomes blocked and pauses breathing during sleep.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airway
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These two serious health conditions occur when plaque forms in arteries, which can slow down blood flow in the body and cause small blood clots to form.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Maritime transport is the main artery of global trade.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Unlike conventional designs, Cabin of Maze is designed to disorient, challenge, and surprise its habitants though its meandering corridors and passageways.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2025
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Beneath Sforza Castle in Milan, researchers have discovered a series of secret tunnels—passageways once sketched by the Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and traversed by a widower sick with grief.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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Frantic body camera footage shows the moment a Miami Beach Police officer is shot by another officer A Miami Beach Police officer will not face criminal charges after accidentally shooting a fellow officer while responding to a call on a busy Florida roadway.—
Julia Bonavita,
Fox News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Flanked by breweries and restaurants, the 2900 block of Larimer Street has been closed to cars since 2020, when businesses were given the city’s blessing to expand outdoor seating onto the roadway.—
Max Levy,
The Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2025
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When the wagon trains started moving out West, when the boats were landing at the foot of Main street — then things started moving.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
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Upon arrival, officers found an unresponsive male with apparent gunshot wounds lying in the street next to a vehicle parked in front of the address, according to the social media post.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Southern whites imprisoned a disproportionately Black convict population, often for minor and outright fictional crimes, and put them to work, especially in building the highways that brought the South into the modern age.—
Justin Hawkins / Made by History,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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Trying to avoid a collision, both drivers veered toward the highway’s east shoulder, where the vehicles collided.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Dean will return to the road in February with dates throughout Texas, including a Feb. 16 show with Vandoliers.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
30 Jan. 2025
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What To Know The advisory warned that road conditions could become hazardous, particularly during peak travel hours on Wednesday.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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The school’s proximity to two major thoroughfares, 47th Street and Pulaski Road, makes walking and biking too dangerous for most other parents in the community, Galvez Searle said.—
Sarah Macaraeg,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 405, the major thoroughfare connecting L.A. with the San Fernando Valley, remains open.—
Matteo Moschella,
NBC News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Last summer's sewage leak into the James River was caused partly by a series of issues with the bypass pumps, including the temporary pumps being in use for three years.—
Sabrina Moreno,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
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That hackers want your account credentials is no secret, be that from high-speed attacks against Microsoft accounts or two-factor authentication bypass attacks against Google users.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Airway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airway. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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