breath

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Recent Examples of breath Take slow, steady breaths in and out through your nose. Yoga With Kassandra, Outside, 11 Oct. 2025 This capability could even extend to human breath monitoring, where subtle changes in exhaled gases provide early clues to diseases such as diabetes, lung infections or cancer. Bohong Zhang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025 From high-tech skin tools to oral care upgrades that make fresh breath feel less like a chore, these wellness deals are all about feeling good from the inside out. Lily Wohlner, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025 Northwest Indiana residents may get a breath of fresh air after the federal government reversed course on delaying rules meant to curb hazardous air pollution from steel mills. Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for breath
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breath
Noun
  • Lawrence also took another two-year pause after the release of raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings (2023) before taking on a new project, Die My Love.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • While earnings season has helped fill the information void, this pause in government data comes at a uniquely unfortunate time, given questions about the health of the labor market and inflationary pressures during the trade war.
    Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The only squib marks left on anyone were on the almost 5,000 patrons who braved one of the most refreshingly moderate ocean breezes California has to offer to see maybe still the best homegrown group California has had to offer in any recent year.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Looking for a vacation that involves plenty of sand between your toes, fantastic seafood, and the perfect ocean breeze kissing your cheek?
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Crane hints, Brooke’s take on the eighteenth-century sentimental romance would be a controversial selection as Canada’s first.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Dæmons seem to be an outward manifestation of the complex nature of humans that encompasses, male, female and animalistic characteristics that hint towards the breaking of gender binaries and the possibilities of interspecies relations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, why did the offense experience so many extended lulls against opposing bullpens (even as, in another contradiction, its overall performance against bullpens was in line with 2024)?
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • However, an early burst of winter storms is expected, with a lull of snow in the mid-winter season, then a resurgence in late months of winter.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As police swarm the plant, Batman disappears in a puff of smoke.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Many super-puffs get their inflated atmospheres from tidal heating.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Within both design and fashion, the Middle East is one of those buoyant markets providing a glimmer of hope amid a difficult economy worldwide.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s flight offers a glimmer of hope that a V3 booster catch could be on the horizon.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Quentin Johnston came up with their first down after the break.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Shore break occurs when waves break directly on the beach.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The red light begins to flicker and dance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Southern live oaks draped in Spanish moss that tower and twist over city squares, Neoclassical Antebellum architecture, gas lamps that flicker over uneven cobblestone paths, and a humid subtropical climate that hangs heavy in the air.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Breath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breath. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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