exertion
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Exertion kept their vascular networks coursing with warm blood; when they paused, cold seeped into their chests.
From National Geographic • Dec. 24, 2020
Exertion alone seemed to bind the two sides together.
From BBC • May 19, 2016
Beal will now begin the league-mandated “Return-to-Participation Exertion Protocol” and will be cleared to play once he has remained symptom-free during each step of the process.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2016
Exertion made him gasp for breath, but he did not worry about this until he awoke, usually between 1 and 3 a.m., terrified because he thought he was suffocating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exertion has been made so painful to them, that at length they have sunk into apathy, or submitted in despair to the eternal punishment of shame.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria
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