1
as in respires
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 lives
to have life
as long as I breathe, you will have a place to stay
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Recent Examples of breathes
Inside, each of the three hundred and sixty-five exercises breathes on its own page.
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David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
That’s what Lanza atelier has achieved with ‘a serpentine,’ a structure that breathes with its surroundings.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
And editor Scott Morris delivers a compact cut of just under two hours that nonetheless breathes like an epic.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
The forward is a bouncy, explosive player who lives and breathes above the rim.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
For the most part, the destruction of Gaza, like the rise of global fascism, is an unignorable context that every work in the show breathes in.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 12 May 2026
Simonis places a morsel on his tongue and then breathes in through his mouth and out through his nose to heighten his perception of the chocolate's aroma and taste.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 May 2026
That, with a lime-wash plaster on accent walls, breathes and softens the acoustics of a small footprint.
—Amy Kunst, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
That’s what Lanza atelier has achieved with ‘a serpentine,’ a structure that breathes with its surroundings.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
And editor Scott Morris delivers a compact cut of just under two hours that nonetheless breathes like an epic.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
The forward is a bouncy, explosive player who lives and breathes above the rim.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
For the most part, the destruction of Gaza, like the rise of global fascism, is an unignorable context that every work in the show breathes in.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 12 May 2026
Simonis places a morsel on his tongue and then breathes in through his mouth and out through his nose to heighten his perception of the chocolate's aroma and taste.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 May 2026
That, with a lime-wash plaster on accent walls, breathes and softens the acoustics of a small footprint.
—Amy Kunst, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breathes
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But strip away the drama, and what you’re left with is a genuine repricing of where enterprise software value actually lives.—
Joel Hron,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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There's no health to monitor or lives to count, and very rarely any kind of fail state.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
19 May 2026
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Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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But not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, and not everyone with sleep apnea snores.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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But there is still interest in games not involving the best available teams.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), there is no residency requirement to file a lawsuit challenging a project’s environmental review.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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The Taurus new moon inspires thinking about cycles of life, death, and rebirth.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
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Vanguard exists to hunt down wild, unproven chip architectures and test them against real-world national security workloads.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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In many ways, the Cult Gaia man exists as a counterpart to the Cult Gaia woman.—
Karin Eldor,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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“Breathes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathes. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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