blood
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King Harald reigned for 35 years and died at the national hospital in Norway's capital where he was being treated for a rare blood condition.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Anyone wishing to donate blood can sign up on the NHS Blood Donation website,, external external or use the app to register and book an appointment.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the veterinary emergency room, Samba was anesthetized, and the medical staff was then able to draw her blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
That said, there are cases of endurance athletes drinking excessive fluids, resulting in life-threatening conditions like hyponatremia, when blood sodium levels drop too low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
As he studied the medicine horn in his hand, the blood drained from his face.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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My socials are inundated with videos of enthusiastic clients filming themselves in scan machines, getting their bloods taken and testing their grip strength.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Miami falls into an awkward middle ground that the blue bloods often avoid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The agency demanded evidence from an “adequate and well-controlled trial” to prove that reducing the protein in patients’ bloods improves patient outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
He listed UConn and Gonzaga, teams that have enjoyed wild success the last few decades but haven’t won enough historically to be considered classic blue bloods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
Grover had taken over the satyr seekers and was sending them out across the world to find unclaimed half- bloods.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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Toxoplasma gondii is a potentially dangerous parasite that infects warm blooded animals.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Some deep-sea fish, such as tuna and lamnid sharks, a family of large and speedy sharks, are partially warm blooded; they can divert body heat to specific organs even in icy temps.
From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2023
“Because they’re cold blooded animals, they regulate their body temperature as best they can based on the environment,” he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
Species of warm- blooded animals, for example, tend to have larger bodies in the cooler climates closer to the earth’s poles, allowing them to better conserve heat.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
To Estha—steeped in the smell of old roses, blooded on memories of a broken man—the fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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There was the odd highlight, of course, namely beating Scotland 3-0 in Dublin in the Nations League, but Kenny's main legacy will be his role in blooding the Republic's next generation.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
Italy, because they are blooding quite a few youngsters in the Six Nations, and they do not have a consistent enough goal kicker to capitalise on the good work of their forwards.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2015
The youngsters they are blooding into the first team are talented, ready to impress.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013
"I'd rather go through the tough times now than be blooding young players with no experience in the 2015 World Cup in our own backyard," warned Lancaster flatly.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2013
Not worth the money; they are not blooding.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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