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Recent Examples of nasal
However, newer hypotheses suggest, as noted in the 2025 review, that the reflex may also serve to redistribute mucus across the nasal cavity; it’s believed that this enhances the trapping and dilution of harmful particles, rather than just blasting them outward.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
In one study, researchers found that people with higher sodium levels had more severe nasal congestion and higher antibody levels.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
This results in itchy, watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing, congestion and nasal passage itching.
—Levi Keller, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
Mouth tape encourages nasal breathing and may reduce snoring.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
In one study, researchers found that people with higher sodium levels had more severe nasal congestion and higher antibody levels.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
This results in itchy, watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing, congestion and nasal passage itching.
—Levi Keller, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
Mouth tape encourages nasal breathing and may reduce snoring.
—Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nasal
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But more recently, Japan-bashing has become the core of a strident Chinese nationalism, with disastrous consequences.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
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Surely the demise of America’s most strident ideological foe, ten years after the humiliations of the Iranian hostage crisis, called for greater attention?—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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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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Still, the glimpses of freedom Clark offers are all the more piercing for their rarity.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
21 Apr. 2026
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The ping of pickleball play produces a uniquely piercing and repetitive sound that has led to contentious lawsuits and controversies across the entire country, including just north in Fox Point, as the sport has rapidly grown in popularity over the last few years.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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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 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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And then, crackling across the radio in both Gemini 7 and Mission Control, just nine days before Christmas of 1965, came a tiny, tinny chorus of Jingle Bells, performed live, on a small harmonica and small set of bells—contraband Schirra had smuggled aboard his ship.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
11 May 2026
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Plus, the pedals were sticky, as were some of the black keys in the middle, and while the lower register wasn’t great, the upper register was worse—tinny, due to worn‑out felt on the hammers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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Said was clean-shaven, with close-cropped, graying hair and thin, rectangular glasses.—
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Expect body hair to thin, disappear, Alpinize.—
Sandra Cisneros,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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“Nasal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nasal. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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