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Recent Examples of lifeblood
In an industry whose lifeblood is fresh capital, there are simply too many funds and not enough dollars in pensions, endowments and other institutions to satisfy all of them.
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Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Information is the lifeblood of efficient markets.
—Andrew Behar, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Christians are the lifeblood of The Homeland.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
These are the ultimate capitalists, pecking ruggedly at the earth’s skin and turning its lifeblood into piles of cash.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
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Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Information is the lifeblood of efficient markets.
—Andrew Behar, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Christians are the lifeblood of The Homeland.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
These are the ultimate capitalists, pecking ruggedly at the earth’s skin and turning its lifeblood into piles of cash.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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Her life’s work was stolen early Monday when thieves swiped a shipping box containing many of her puppets from outside her Beachwood Canyon apartment.—
Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Food preferences begin in the first years of life, so the findings of the study are alarming, said Jane Houlihan, research director for Healthy Babies, Bright Futures, an alliance of nonprofits, scientists and donors with a mission of reducing babies’ exposures to neurotoxic chemicals.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The crushing weight of those numbers froze my soul.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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As someone who moved to the South not knowing a soul, building a network has been key.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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To see him in such high spirits, seemingly not dampened by being rested for the final half-hour as Chelsea continue to manage his minutes, was a rare treat.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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The spirit and the symbolism were, at times, undecipherable.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2026
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 14 Feb. 2026.
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