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Recent Examples of lifebloodConsumer spending is the lifeblood of the US economy, and its trajectory from here out largely depends on what happens with the labor market.—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 17 June 2025 And decades of supply-chain experts have said it bluntly: Partnerships are the industry’s lifeblood.—Aleksandr Zemel, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 The younger Forrest was cagey with pals about a lot of the details of his childhood — and his only remaining brother did not respond to requests for an interview for this story — but everyone agrees that music was his lifeblood.—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025 What began locally grew to a larger endeavor of creating a nonprofit to feed those in need up and down the 120-mile island chain, which was starved of its lifeblood tourism.—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeblood
Burney, a Baltimore native who’s about to head out on an East Coast book tour, succeeds at crafting a work that’s as much a poignant reflection on his life as an ethnomusical study.
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Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
Amid the threats on his life, the 86-year-old Khamenei, who has led Iran since 1989, is sheltering in a bunker and has even named potential successors in the event of his death, according to the New York Times.
The series, currently filming in Singapore and Bangkok, follows two women who mysteriously swap souls after a car accident.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
1 July 2025
But all films included in the competitions, especially the Crystal Globe [main] competition, have this soul or core, which is very strong and through which the filmmaker tries to communicate something important.
Her work sheds light on issues such as human trafficking and systemic oppression, and Shakti hopes to empower other women through her paintings.
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Daniel Wine,
CNN,
24 July 2024
The Milky Way’s earliest pieces In a recent paper, researchers using the Gaia space telescope identified two streams of stars, named Shakti and Shiva, each of which contains a total mass of around 10 million Suns and which are thought to have merged into the Milky Way around 12 billion years ago.
Scorpio Mysterious, magnetic, and maybe just a little bit dangerous: Scorpio, your jewelry needs to match your passion and emulate your true inner light to the outside world.
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Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
27 June 2025
His eyes still sparkled at times, even as his inner light seemed to be fading.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2025
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.
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Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.
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