1
as in to respire
to inhale and exhale air
sometimes it gets so hot in here that it's hard to even breathe
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2
as in to live
to have life
as long as I breathe, you will have a place to stay
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Recent Examples of breathe
On the upswing Stefanie Longenecker, 43, has been breathing a little easier as inflation slows.
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Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
From breathing new creative life into Frank Sinatra and Count Basie’s careers in the 1960s, making Michael Jackson a solo star with Off the Wall and Thriller and becoming one of the first major black composers of film scores, Jones was a towering figure in the modern music industry.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Nov. 2024
In some parts of Dhaka, breathing the air is the equivalent of smoking 1.6 cigarettes a day.
—New York Times, 4 Nov. 2024
My role, as the actor, is to breathe life into the character.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
From breathing new creative life into Frank Sinatra and Count Basie’s careers in the 1960s, making Michael Jackson a solo star with Off the Wall and Thriller and becoming one of the first major black composers of film scores, Jones was a towering figure in the modern music industry.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Nov. 2024
In some parts of Dhaka, breathing the air is the equivalent of smoking 1.6 cigarettes a day.
—New York Times, 4 Nov. 2024
My role, as the actor, is to breathe life into the character.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breathe
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In the soil around their roots, billions of fungi and soil bacteria respire as well.Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
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Vegetables that respire at a higher rate keep better in the refrigerator crisper, where food retains more moisture than in the open space of the main refrigerator compartment, which can draw moisture out of produce.Anne-Marie Bonneau, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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Parasaurolophus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived around 77 to 73 million years ago in present day North America.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
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His youngest child, Ruby, lived long enough to find out how little her society cared about them.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Mouth-taping had long been the empty threat of spouses irked by their partner’s snoring, but now the TikTok tapers seal their own mouths voluntarily, looking for better sleep and more likes.Matt Fuchs, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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Why the Answer May Be Disappointing Pascal emerged as Joan’s first villain on The Golden Bachelorette after Episode 2 saw another contestant, Gregg Lassen, doing Pascal’s laundry as an apology for snoring so much.Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 30 Oct. 2024
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And there are no pockets—a design that helps the jacket fit into a pocket.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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But the court also stated that there were triable issues of fact with regard to the duration of the bite.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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“Breathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breathe. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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