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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

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

While some surrounding galleries don’t jell as well—partly because their themes bleed into one another—they nevertheless present intriguing arrays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

A young surgeon was summoned from Hartford to bleed her, and a nauseous brew of ground roasted toads was forced between her cracked lips, to no avail.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Doctors managed to stem the bleeding but failed to investigate its cause and she suffered multiple bleeds until she gave birth.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

The high doses raise risks of a side effect that can cause brain bleeds and swelling.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

The train bleeds off speed and approaches a station.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

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

Hefty selling on Wall Street bled through to Asia, where Seoul dived more than three percent as chipmakers were hammered.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

My scraped knee has bled all down my leg.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

It might need backer Nvidia to stem the bleeding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The necropsy did not find uncontrolled bleeding typically associated with anticoagulant rodenticide; therefore, brodifacoum was not identified as the primary cause of illness or death,” Fish and Wildlife said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The mistakes risked bleeding into budgets for years to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him—and there was a royal lot of it, too—to keep him from breaking down.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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