bleed

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as in to drip
to flow forth slowly through small openings pitch was bleeding from cuts in the tree bark

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Recent Examples of bleed And there’s a lot of gross images here too (e.g., man running down the street and through a bodega with a bleeding face). Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 23 June 2025 After incessant nose bleeds, unrelenting fever, and debilitating pain and fatigue, Joey is diagnosed with leprosy, now known as Hansen’s Disease. Oc Register, 20 June 2025 That bled into an ugly 2024-25 campaign where Ceci drowned in San Jose and didn’t improve much with a better supporting cast in Dallas. Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025 In a video published by Reuters, a man can be seen bleeding from a wound in his back while being wheeled into the entrance. Ellie Kaufman, ABC News, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for bleed
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Verb
  • She’s encountered many grieving parents who lost their children to gunfire.
    Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 21 June 2025
  • Like the notion of never stepping into the same river twice, the protagonist in my own book, upon finally accepting that loving a river is an act of loving an ever-changing, never-graspable flow, is irrevocably changed by that painful experience and yet doesn’t have the staying power to grieve it.
    Siouxzi Connor June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • But a special energy crackles in the grandstands when a hitter who drips with danger steps to the plate.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • The liquid caught on his glasses and dripped into his eyes.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • But rather than engage in real fiscal discipline or rank order the needs of our communities, this budget leans on gimmicks — draining our Rainy Day Fund, borrowing billions from special funds, and relying on tax hikes that disproportionately harm small businesses and middle-class families.
    Diane Dixon, Oc Register, 18 June 2025
  • Why Culture Matters Toxic culture can drain performance, producing distrust, low creativity and high turnover.
    Chris Williams, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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  • Despite remaining hugely cash-generative at the operating level, outgoings on player transfers, loan interest and the £50million investment at the Carrington training ground have squeezed their ability to spend quite so readily as in the past.
    Gregg Evans, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • Team-building is not about squeezing sufficient value out of every single contract or assembling a roster of yes men.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 June 2025
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  • These lonely senior citizens arrive at a Los Angeles bungalow where Fish, newly discharged from an asylum, wrestles with an imagined demon and Poinsettia mourns a fantasy romance with composer Giacomo Puccini.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
  • The Ultimate Angus Philly went the way of the Dodo almost 15 years ago, and customers have been mourning the discontinuation of The Three Cheese Steak Sandwich for the better part of a decade.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 June 2025
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  • The next step for the astronomers will be to explore how hot gas flows through NGC 253, changing composition and helping to create new stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 June 2025
  • Profits flow through Chinese underground banks to the Chinese Communist Party’s $210 billion state tobacco empire, helping fund naval expansion and ballistic-missile programs.
    Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
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  • That’s the fun thing for me, is there’s no reason the next one couldn’t suck back in and be a chamber piece again.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Despite its appearance, the hummingbird’s tongue doesn't suck up nectar like a drinking straw.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
Verb
  • President Donald Trump's rapid pullback of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans at least $18 billion in higher fees and lost compensation for consumers allegedly cheated by major companies, according to an analysis released Tuesday by two organizations.
    Douglas Gillison, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • But they didn’t get cheated this spring, not with three rousing blasts from the past: Against the Pistons, against the Celtics, against the Pacers.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025

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“Bleed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleed. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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