airway

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Recent Examples of airway Knockoffs are small enough for a child to fit the doll in their mouth and block their airway. Devonne Goode, Parents, 21 Aug. 2025 Inside a classroom at Nashville State Community College, nursing student Christa Hansen helped suction a tube inserted into a patient's trachea to keep his airway clear. Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 The report revealed that medical intervention was attempted on Bell with defibrillator pads on his chest, a blood pressure cuff on his arm, an airway in his mouth and IV access. Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 Sleeping on your stomach can cause strain to the spine and neck, while back sleeping will make snoring worse due to the tongue and jaw position blocking the airway. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airway
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Noun
  • But with the post-pandemic return to school and work, resentment grew among neighborhood residents who relied on the artery to get around.
    Janie Har, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Heart attacks in younger adults aren’t always due to clogged arteries.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their three robotic rovers, outfitted with an array of cutting-edge imagery gear including time-of-flight cameras, helped the team generate an atlas of 3D maps of the site - from its skylight to its inner passageways.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those tendrils of greenery would act as invitations worth accepting, passageways to Queens’s own central park, a haven of natural beauty, noisy play, quiet retreat, and social gathering.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The plan for the roadway that stretches across the Hagginwood and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods of North Sacramento will later go before the City Council for approval.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Footage of the protests showed Ecuadorians clashing with police forces in the capital city of Quito on Tuesday as protesters dismantled fences and barriers while police fired tear gas in the streets.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The same goes for the highway—in fact, potential customers would be hard-pressed to find better in this department for the price offered.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.
    Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.
    Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Since its opening in mid-June, the experimental project has driven a 25 percent increase in total sales across the West Nanjing Road thoroughfare.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Underwood has muscular dystrophy and has endured three heart attacks and a quadruple bypass.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Adversaries could use the system to generate malicious code or bypass safeguards, or find ways to manipulate outputs to generate harmful outputs.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Airway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airway. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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