lifeblood

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Recent Examples of lifeblood The lifeblood of global communication flows through more than 807,800 miles worth of garden hose-wide cables woven across the sea floor. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 June 2025 Volunteerism has long been the lifeblood of the nonprofit sector. Leslye Moore, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025 Currently, the size of the US economy and the stability of the dollar have made the greenback the lifeblood of global finance – and a significant factor in American global power. Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 10 July 2025 Epstein’s alleged connection to powerful figures in politics, business and entertainment has been the lifeblood of right-wing conspiracy theories since the 66-year-old Brooklyn native was taken into custody and later took his own life. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeblood
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Noun
  • He's blessed us every day to get up to come here with life, with intelligence.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • This is the same recipe that led to the university's record-high student retention rate, to a new nursing building that will put more nurses in the field and to faculty conducting research that betters people's lives.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • The musical slipstream that creates between bluegrass, blues, country, folk, hip-hop, jazz, R&B, rock and soul has roots more firmly entrenched — and more lucrative — in Music City than ever.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 26 July 2025
  • Allow this to awaken your soul ahead of season 4 of Ted Lasso: Jason Sudeikis and costars Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, and Brendan Hunt crashed a Mumford & Sons concert to perform the show's theme song on stage.
    EW.com, EW.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Her work sheds light on issues such as human trafficking and systemic oppression, and Shakti hopes to empower other women through her paintings.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • The Milky Way’s earliest pieces In a recent paper, researchers using the Gaia space telescope identified two streams of stars, named Shakti and Shiva, each of which contains a total mass of around 10 million Suns and which are thought to have merged into the Milky Way around 12 billion years ago.
    Georgina Torbet, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
Noun
  • Instead, we're meant to interpret the montage as Anna's way of carrying Jamie's spirit with her through her life.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • That spirit of innovation has shaped our approach to programs globally.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021

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“Lifeblood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeblood. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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