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Recent Examples of lifeblood
Eyeballs, in the arena but more importantly on TV and mobile devices, are the revenue lifeblood of sports leagues and teams.
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Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Forests are the lifeblood of Amazonian communities.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
At the heart of the vast effort is the Everglades’ lifeblood water.
—Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Immigrants and working-class people are the lifeblood of our state, but our leaders have failed to heed our calls to enact necessary policies that ensure that everyone, regardless of immigration status, has the opportunity to flourish.
—Natalia Aristizabal, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Forests are the lifeblood of Amazonian communities.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
At the heart of the vast effort is the Everglades’ lifeblood water.
—Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Immigrants and working-class people are the lifeblood of our state, but our leaders have failed to heed our calls to enact necessary policies that ensure that everyone, regardless of immigration status, has the opportunity to flourish.
—Natalia Aristizabal, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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The tiny elephant’s arrival is being celebrated as a once-in-a-generation moment as a new life takes its first wobbly steps.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The decline in future spending commitments is projected to lead to 670,000 and 1,600,000 lives lost annually.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The crunchy Larkin Poe album embodies the musical slipperiness of Americana as an ideal, a carefree cruise through country, blues, rock, and soul; the Molly Tuttle album brims with the rustic zest of early Sheryl Crow.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Produced by Yohan Usuga, this collective performance captures the soul of the genre and amplifies the song’s emotional resonance.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
30 Jan. 2026
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Though Proust never came to Ireland, his own work also contains echoes of Irish history and culture that epitomize its polymathic, cosmopolitan spirit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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The resulting images of floating cameras, canisters, and film boxes push the idea of spirit photography to a conceptual (and rather comic) extreme.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 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 7 Feb. 2026.
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