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[bleed] / blid /




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She relishes the tedious sausage-making of statecraft, the kind of stuff that makes you and me bleed from our ears.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Hilda Farias was 28 when she rode X2 in 2010 and developed a brain bleed that led to her death, according to court records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Almost every commercial aircraft flying today uses the so-called bleed air system that draws compressed, unfiltered air directly from the engine into the aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The commercial importance of diesel makes this rise particularly alarming, with more obvious potential for high diesel prices to bleed into broader inflation than for crude,” analysts at Wolfe Research said in a note Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Some tribes scratch the days of the Moon or the days that the women bleed on antler bones.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

But these sights are drained of their warmth, depicted with a cold, eerie hum that, when it bleeds into the roar of suffering miles away, becomes a deafening cacophony.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Current ASU student Sophie said her family "bleeds maroon and gold".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Pill worries that the reassurance central-bank policy provides bleeds into monetary policy by boosting borrowing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

A kick drum bleeds into a vocal mic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

The thread’s cheap dye bleeds into the fabric.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

However, there is little evidence that the increase in energy costs has bled into second-round effects such as through wages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“It’s a national concern, it’s now a state concern, and now it’s bled into the local concern,” Hanford Mayor Mark Kairis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Now without a slipstream, he was 0.4secs down at the first sector and bled time through the lap.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Digital disaffection has bled into our lives like dye onto white linen, creeping through every inch of the fabric until it’s covered in amorphous patterns of color; some beautiful, some painfully ugly.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“I’m starving! All I’ve had since I bled half to death is a couple of toadstools!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

It might need backer Nvidia to stem the bleeding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

By then, he was suffering from fever, chills, muscle pain, a sore throat and bleeding.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Manganiello detailed debilitating abdominal pain, fevers, rashes, headaches, fatigue and ulcers in his digestive tract that caused bleeding and led to countless colonoscopies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The authors say symptoms such as unexplained weight loss and rectal bleeding should be taken seriously when they occur in younger patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was not until the icy February morning that Christoffels stumbled into the dining room with a bleeding cheek and a torn coat that the truth came out.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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