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Nelson and other researchers fear their projects could be left behind if the U.S. government doesn’t ante up a similar bolus of funding.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024

“The bolus of boats in and out of the locks is a delight, as is listening to the sea lions.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Finally, it pushes that bolus back to be swallowed, making sure no food enters the airways.

From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023

“Persistent Vision” is a digital bolus of D.C. punk rock stretching from 1976 to 1992.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022

Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

And public-health departments' ability to identify threats has been bolstered by boluses of federal money after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and subsequent anthrax attacks, and in the 2009 stimulus package.

From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2013

The Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most inventors of "worm pills" and the like order castor oil to be given after their boluses, a terrible aggravation both to operator and patient.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams

Now, Willoughby, it seems, has found the public appetite so great for these thought-saving boluses of knowledge—unpleasant drugs, as it were, put up into gelatine capsules—that he needs assistance.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Among them are the extremists in dosage: those with a hundred remedies for a hundred symptoms; others with such boluses as would writhe the face of an ox.

From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey