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Recent Examples of lifeblood
The Purple Line, which was originally planned to deliver commuters from San Ysidro through Southeast County to Mission Valley and Sorrento Mesa, will be a lifeblood for the South County transportation system when it is completed.
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Chris Roberts, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Windowing is the lifeblood of studio economics; without it, filmmaking dies.
—Joseph M. Singer, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Recruiting student-athletes is the lifeblood for college football programs, and UC Davis and Sacramento State secured strong signing classes this week during the second and final letter-of-intent signing period this winter in an effort to maintain program momentum.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Almost immediately that led to a huge negative impact to the paper’s bottom line because more than 250,000 existing subscribers canceled their subscriptions, and that’s the lifeblood of a modern-day media company.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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Chris Roberts, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Windowing is the lifeblood of studio economics; without it, filmmaking dies.
—Joseph M. Singer, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Recruiting student-athletes is the lifeblood for college football programs, and UC Davis and Sacramento State secured strong signing classes this week during the second and final letter-of-intent signing period this winter in an effort to maintain program momentum.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026
Almost immediately that led to a huge negative impact to the paper’s bottom line because more than 250,000 existing subscribers canceled their subscriptions, and that’s the lifeblood of a modern-day media company.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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Manuel then slipped into a stark white dress overflowing with ruffles and shrugged on a matching lace shawl with long fringing over it—all key elements to bringing his hypnotizing moves to life.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Johnny’s life was cut short in a tragedy that still feels impossible to process — struck and killed by a car while riding his bicycle.—
Peter Folan,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And while the name has changed and updates and expansions have been made over the decades, the soul and aesthetics of the original still come through.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026
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This expressive, effusive soul could finally use skating to effusively express her soul.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The most widespread Games in history created distinct pockets of Olympic spirit separated by hours on trains and miles of winding mountain roads.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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And in that spirit, three strong disagreements with these arguments.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.—
Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
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And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2021
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“Lifeblood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeblood. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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