lifeblood

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Recent Examples of lifeblood Innovation is the lifeblood of progress, and nowhere is this more evident than in the critical efforts to address energy security, modernize infrastructure for efficiency and resilience, and strengthen global supply chains. Seth Darling, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025 Clear communication is the lifeblood of successful personal and professional relationships. Matt Abrahams, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025 United’s lifeblood is youth, and these circumstances should ensure the run of consecutive games including an academy player in the first-team squad will continue. Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025 These grants are the lifeblood of biomedical research in the US. Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeblood
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Noun
  • Required reading Natasha Jonas: A day in the life of a world champion (Photo: Zac Goodwin / PA Images via Getty Images) Sarah Shephard spent 10 years at Sport magazine before becoming Deputy Head of Content at The Coaches' Voice.
    Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
  • There is no formula, scoring system or checklist in determining the news value of a life.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But in the role that won her a Best Actress Oscar, Holly Hunter reveals the sound of her character's soul with the barest of physical motions.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Even so, there remained faint hope that Lost Campaign would somehow survive when Suggs, the starting point guard and heart and soul of the team’s defense-first mentality, returned from injury.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
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  • 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
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  • What none of them realize is the power of the sandman. Staples, who holds an MFA in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts, gives us a creepy and fast-paced story that details the workings of a well-run casino and the spirits of those who have been there in life.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Pompeii is closer in spirit for many of the shows that Bauer was known for at Tandem such as The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.
    Peter White, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Give your inner light a chance to shine, touch people’s lives and enrich the world around you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.
    Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
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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