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Recent Examples of lifeblood
In the era of streaming, smaller productions churned out at an exceptionally high rate are the lifeblood of platforms like Netflix, Paramount, HBO, and Hulu.
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Zoltan Kesz, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
Vampires are the ones sweeping in and sucking the lifeblood out of residents.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Her improbable success and unlikely downfall, and what her story says about belief and self-invention and fame, are in the lifeblood of Los Angeles.
—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Those three are often the lifeblood for the brand of basketball the Timberwolves want to play.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
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Zoltan Kesz, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
Vampires are the ones sweeping in and sucking the lifeblood out of residents.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Her improbable success and unlikely downfall, and what her story says about belief and self-invention and fame, are in the lifeblood of Los Angeles.
—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Those three are often the lifeblood for the brand of basketball the Timberwolves want to play.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeblood
Noun
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An effort to extend the life of the B61 nuclear bomb also faced significant delays and saw costs more than double – to the tune of an additional $4 billion.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Seeing any woman, particularly a Black woman, establish herself as independently wealthy without the help of a spouse or parent is admirable and reflects an urge in younger generations to live a life that wasn’t as accessible to those who came before us.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Two graduate students, Alice and Peter, must travel to hell in order to save their professor’s soul, and yes, there’s a bit of will-they-or-won’t-they romance.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The moon’s connection to Mars presents the perfect opportunity to lay your soul bare.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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Her work sheds light on issues such as human trafficking and systemic oppression, and Shakti hopes to empower other women through her paintings.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN,
24 July 2024
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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.—
Georgina Torbet,
Ars Technica,
10 June 2024
Noun
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This workaround defeats the spirit of the deferral rules.—
Andre Pennington,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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These lowball glasses give a fashionable look to an old-fashioned or a splash of any spirit.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 May 2025
Noun
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The character, for all his dramatic shortcomings, has an inner light.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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Give your inner light a chance to shine, touch people’s lives and enrich the world around you.—
Eugenia Last,
The Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2024
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 27 May. 2025.
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