as in breathes
to inhale and exhale air
though unconscious, the patient is still respiring
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The forward is a bouncy, explosive player who lives and breathes above the rim.—
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For the most part, the destruction of Gaza, like the rise of global fascism, is an unignorable context that every work in the show breathes in.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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“Respires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respires. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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