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Recent Examples of airway
Their tiny airways can’t handle so much inflammation.
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Avoid cigarette smoke and other airway irritants that can make coughing worse.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 13 Apr. 2025
Inhaled silica dust particles travel down airways and into the smallest spaces of the lung, causing scarring and eventually difficulty breathing, often becoming so severe that a lung transplant might be the only solution to avoid death.
—Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
Breathing in specific triggers causes the airways in your lungs to tighten, resulting in an asthma attack.
—Susan Russell, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2025
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Avoid cigarette smoke and other airway irritants that can make coughing worse.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 13 Apr. 2025
Inhaled silica dust particles travel down airways and into the smallest spaces of the lung, causing scarring and eventually difficulty breathing, often becoming so severe that a lung transplant might be the only solution to avoid death.
—Dr. Mark Abdelmalek, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
Breathing in specific triggers causes the airways in your lungs to tighten, resulting in an asthma attack.
—Susan Russell, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airway
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Exposure to long-term pollution accelerates the buildup of plaque in the arteries around the heart, increases the chances of heart failure and arrhythmias, and increases the likelihood of strokes.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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Peripheral Artery Disease Peripheral artery disease occurs when blood vessels become clogged with plaque, decreasing blood flow, commonly in the legs.—
Jennifer Steinhoff,
Verywell Health,
22 Apr. 2025
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Since the protests a year ago, the university has heavily restricted campus access, drawing a lawsuit from neighbors in Manhattan who say Columbia is violating city and state laws permitting a passageway through campus.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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And there is an internal passageway to the Frick Art Reference Library, now called the Frick Art Research Library.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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The nearly 12-mile stretch of I-4 in Orange and Osceola counties between State Road 528 and State Road 429 jumped to first place among the most clogged roadways in the nation in 2023 after ranking tenth the previous year, according to INRIX.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2025
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The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Apr. 2025
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Safer streets, stronger neighborhoods, and city services that actually serve.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
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There’s no way to steal, bypass, copy or leak a passkey.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Gather Your Tools Heavy-duty leather gloves or rose gauntlets, sharp bypass pruners, a pair of loppers, a rake, and a bucket or wheelbarrow for debris will make speedy work of pruning Knock Out roses.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Airway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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