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Recent Examples of lifeblood
The platform's lifeblood, Netflix Originals are responsible for billions of hours of watch time.
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Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
For Silicon Valley venture investors, long the lifeblood of risky tech startups, the system isn’t functioning as intended.
—Ashley Capoot,salvador Rodriguez,annie Palmer, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
So, states around the country consolidated schools, the lifeblood of rural communities.
—Kayla Gabehart, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2025
Its revenues from the sale of oil and gas, the lifeblood of its economy, collapsed by 28% in July.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
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Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
For Silicon Valley venture investors, long the lifeblood of risky tech startups, the system isn’t functioning as intended.
—Ashley Capoot,salvador Rodriguez,annie Palmer, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
So, states around the country consolidated schools, the lifeblood of rural communities.
—Kayla Gabehart, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2025
Its revenues from the sale of oil and gas, the lifeblood of its economy, collapsed by 28% in July.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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Safe to use around children and pets, the faux flames come with a remote control function, automatic timers, and a 150-hour battery life.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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Lawson faces 10 to 40 years or life in prison on the first-degree murder charge.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Jackson carved them up in the passing game, then sapped their souls with his scrambles.—
Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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That much is clear from the moment Freyne and Pat Cunnane’s high-concept script (a real Black List special) first drops us into the Hyatt-like Junction where souls process what’s happened and have seven days to pick their final destinations from a variety of convention floor displays.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In that spirit, the exhibition resists the expectation that women and non-binary artists must define themselves in contrast to a male norm.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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The spirit of his work, which earned him a humanism in medicine scholarship in medical school, is what prompted him to call Sutton-Schulman.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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 11 Sep. 2025.
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