oxygen mask
noun
: a device worn over the nose and mouth through which oxygen is supplied from a storage tank
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Putting on your own oxygen mask before others proves trying especially when family members might be forced into debt otherwise.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
The major difference, of course, is that airplane oxygen masks do not drop only in first class—which is the equivalent of what will happen when vaccines eventually become available if governments delay providing access to them to people in other countries.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2020
Edwards denied it, but ESPN reported the guard was wearing an oxygen mask near the bench at one point during Friday’s Game 2.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 May 2024
These plastics save lives, one decreed, featuring a girl in a hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
The major difference, of course, is that airplane oxygen masks do not drop only in first class—which is the equivalent of what will happen when vaccines eventually become available if governments delay providing access to them to people in other countries.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2020
Edwards denied it, but ESPN reported the guard was wearing an oxygen mask near the bench at one point during Friday’s Game 2.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 May 2024
These plastics save lives, one decreed, featuring a girl in a hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 10 May 2024
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“Oxygen mask.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxygen%20mask. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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