per 1 of 2

as in via
using the means or agency of the infection is spread to the rest of the body per the bloodstream

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adverb

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To book, Andrew used 55,000 Alaska Airlines miles per person. Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025 But a study published in The Lancet predicts the cuts will result in 14 million deaths over the next five years – and an online impact tracking tool run by a Boston University professor estimates that there are already 88 deaths per hour. Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025 Though these travelers will still have to contend with the carbon footprint inherent to such dalliances, an output that, according to the Sierra Club, accounts for an average of 4.14 tons of CO2 emissions per person per year—or 83 tons worth of snow loss. Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025 Miami also entered Saturday averaging the third-most fast-break points in the league this season at 24 per game. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for per
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Preposition
  • The Jays will likely look to make a pitching splash via a trade or free agency.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Those who felt the earthquake are encouraged to report it via the USGS Felt Report form.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • California would drop two seats and Illinois and New York would each lose one.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The House and Senate each passed the BBB by razor thin margins with most votes on party lines.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Preposition
  • Razer was founded by Tan and Robert Krakoff in 2005, and the company became known for the Boomslang, a mouse — named after a deadly snake — designed specifically for gaming.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The Shenzhou-21 crew were also joined by four black mice, the first small mammals to be taken to the Chinese space station.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2025
Preposition
  • The Queen of All Hallows' Eve — who not only throws an all-out shindig for her famous friends but also notoriously goes for broke with her costumes, too — spent all day posting hints about this year's look ahead of the big reveal.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
  • In 2023 Atlas Merchant Capital, a combined hedge and PE fund headed by former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond, worked with Houlihan as its advisor to MarshBerry, in a significant fund investment for that leading platform in the insurance brokerage space.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
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  • The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After struggling to get pregnant again, the couple decided to expand their family through surrogacy.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
Preposition
  • Swain and the Houlihan Lokey team view the area, still in its infancy, as a huge field for lucrative fundraising and investment-banking business.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou program, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2025

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