wheezing

present participle of wheeze

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  • Kim Doggett walked outside last Sunday to find her chocolate cake on the floor of her back porch, brown paw prints on her new beige couch and a panting opossum lying on top of it.
    Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Indeed, by the time the procedure was finished, the rabbit was sitting up in its cage, looking around, and panting considerably less.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Wheezing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheezing. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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