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[bleed] / blid /




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Higher prices now “will start to bleed into those hedging plans, and that will ultimately bleed into the end consumers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mortgage-backed securities are increasingly risky for investors — a development that could start to bleed into the overall fixed-income market, warned bond-market veteran Harley Bassman.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

"You cut an Irish person and they'll bleed Croke Park."

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

He has also survived health scares, notably a fall in his bathroom in 2024 that caused a brain bleed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

He'd probably be really good at it, if all the Top 40 music didn't make his ears bleed.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

“Where, I think right now he feels really confident, swinging the bat well, and the hope is that this one bleeds into October as well.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

Authenticity bleeds into Brook's batting, for better and worse.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

I throw it into the tub and watch as the water eats away at the parchment, and the ink bleeds until it disintegrates into nothing.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

He spun so much that I had to put a bootie on his back right foot because Cosmo wore down his paw pad until it bled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

She told me things about the world that didn’t seem possible, not until we were able to pick up a radio station and a solemn voice bled through the speakers to confirm it all.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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

The 55-year-old from Pencoed, Bridgend county, experienced increased fatigue and light vaginal bleeding but put it down to working extra hours and the menopause.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

However, core inflation only edged up to 0.5%, from 0.4% in August, suggesting limited signs of those energy prices bleeding into other parts of the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Severe bleeding remains one of the leading causes of preventable death following traumatic injury,” said Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustin in a statement last month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Instead, it’s me bleeding out all my neuroses, looking for answers to questions I have no right to be asking.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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