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as in to respire
to inhale and exhale air
sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe
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2
as in to live
to have life
as long as I breathe, you will have a place to stay
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Recent Examples of breathe
In the most extreme cases, patients may need to be put on a ventilator or a machine in order to breathe properly.
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Omer Awan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Her daughter was breathing heavily, hunched over in pain, pale in the face.
—Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
After weeks or months, these larvae undergo a process of metamorphosis, which see the tadpoles change into frogs—growing legs, lungs to breathe on land, changing mouthparts to eat meat rather than plants, and shrinking and absorbing their tail.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In Lagos, clothing isn’t just worn, it’s lived, breathed, and celebrated with an infectious energy that could rival any global fashion capital.
—Chika Uwazie, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
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Omer Awan, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Her daughter was breathing heavily, hunched over in pain, pale in the face.
—Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
After weeks or months, these larvae undergo a process of metamorphosis, which see the tadpoles change into frogs—growing legs, lungs to breathe on land, changing mouthparts to eat meat rather than plants, and shrinking and absorbing their tail.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In Lagos, clothing isn’t just worn, it’s lived, breathed, and celebrated with an infectious energy that could rival any global fashion capital.
—Chika Uwazie, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
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In the soil around their roots, billions of fungi and soil bacteria respire as well.Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
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Vegetables that respire at a higher rate keep better in the refrigerator crisper, where food retains more moisture than in the open space of the main refrigerator compartment, which can draw moisture out of produce.Anne-Marie Bonneau, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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Joel Pitra Photo: Joel Pitra The living area has an original wood-burning fireplace.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
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The New York Times reported last month that Musk reportedly hopes one day that all 11 of his children and their mothers can live there or at least stop by.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Pascal emerged as Joan’s first villain on The Golden Bachelorette after Episode 2 saw another contestant, Gregg Lassen, doing Pascal’s laundry as an apology for snoring so much.Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2024
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Is the 'Bachelor House' snoring the new guacamole scandal?Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
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And there are no pockets—a design that helps the jacket fit into a pocket.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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But the court also stated that there were triable issues of fact with regard to the duration of the bite.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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“Breathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathe. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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