as in exhaled
to let or force out of the lungs
leaned back in his chair and breathed out the smoke from his pipe
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exhaled
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On a street by the harbor, crowds of people were squinting into the distance, exclaiming every time the whale exhaled.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026 -
Rose made bogey on the 72nd hole that year, then exhaled when Watson missed an 8-foot birdie putt that would have forced a playoff.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Breathed (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathed%20%28out%29. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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