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Recent Examples of nasal
And in 2019, the Food and Drug Administration approved a nasal spray called esketamine, derived from ketamine, as a medication for depression.
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Angela Andaloro, People.com, 16 May 2025
Eye drops and antihistamine nasal sprays can also help with itchy eyes and stuffy noses, respectively.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
Treatments such as nasal steroid sprays and saline rinses may be recommended to improve inflammation and sinus drainage.11
What Are the Underlying Causes of Sinus Infections?
—Cathy Nelson, Verywell Health, 31 May 2025
Your sinuses are usually connected to your nasal passages to help warm and humidify air and produce mucus for you, but they shouldn’t be connected to your butt.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Angela Andaloro, People.com, 16 May 2025
Eye drops and antihistamine nasal sprays can also help with itchy eyes and stuffy noses, respectively.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
Treatments such as nasal steroid sprays and saline rinses may be recommended to improve inflammation and sinus drainage.11
What Are the Underlying Causes of Sinus Infections?
—Cathy Nelson, Verywell Health, 31 May 2025
Your sinuses are usually connected to your nasal passages to help warm and humidify air and produce mucus for you, but they shouldn’t be connected to your butt.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nasal
Adjective
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This strident belief that languages shape our thinking is referred to as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which is also informally known as Whorfianism, see my detailed discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Some strident Trump supporters did greet his elevation with scorn.—
Ned Temko,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2025
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.—
Hisham Matar,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2024
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And to eloquently share the piercing but ultimately inspiring tale of his family’s experience with the Special Olympics.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2025
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What spooks Vara is that A.I. writes what are possibly her essay’s most piercing lines.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.—
Bryce MillerColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2023
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Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.—
Stephen A. Smith,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2023
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The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2025
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The highs were brighter and crisper, but never tinny or sharp; mid-range tones were rich and full, with noticeable heft compared to cheaper headphones that often leave mids sounding watered down.—
Tim Chan,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2024
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Though no longer lofty, at close range these mountains are still impressive and assertive, rising in sheer cliffs hundreds of feet high above the beating surf, bare rock capped by a thin layer of soil and long grassy turf, spilling dozens of small cascades over and down narrow ravines into the sea.—
Robert Finch
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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Still, scientists have long struggled to account for where all of it is located since a large chunk of ordinary matter is spread so thin among galaxies and the vast spaces between them.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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“Nasal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nasal. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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