hale
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A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
He has gone to lengths to appear hale, skiing with a professional snowboarder and with an Olympic gold medalist who called him a “ripper” as they raced down the mountain.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
During the 1918–19 flu pandemic, however, doctors and other observers noted a high death toll among young, presumably hale adults.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 9, 2023
Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
Torak and Renn lay panting at the edge .of the ice hale.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He still hadn’t gone back to work, but I thought he never looked haler or heartier, or neater or spiffier.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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And it is not because of his seventy-six years, either, for a haler and heartier man never lived—until Paula started this wicked thing upon him, and began making him bread-and-milk for supper.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.
"And you—well, you look just the same as ever; only fuller and haler."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"Fancy, indeed, sir; why, I never saw you looking haler."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various
“Unsurprisingly, corporations did not relish the prospect of being haled into court for any claim anywhere they conducted business,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“Once the president is haled into court, there are innumerable obligations that flow from that,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
At one point the miniaturized siblings are haled into court for boarding a train without tickets.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2017
Hawaii's police just as promptly haled him into court, had him indicted for violation of the 1919 territorial "disloyalty" act.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or such-and-such a merchant had wept when haled before the Liberty Tree and sworn never to do trade with England until all grievances had been righted.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Some of the aircraft were given “vectors” that would take them around airspace over the haling warship.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
“There’s a special indignity that can cause diplomatic tension about haling a foreign official personally … into court,” John Bash, an attorney representing the fund and al-Rumayyan, told the court at a hearing last month.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023
Kalanick was necessary for one part of creating the ride haling industry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Strange it may be, but for Jordi Savall the haling comes quite naturally.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011
It is some old woman's bugaboo that you are haling out of a dark corner of your imagination to frighten yourself with.
From The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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