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breathing

adjective as in respiring

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adjective as in alive

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The younger brother said his sister had been bedridden for the last two years and as her health deteriorated she appeared to have stopped breathing on Saturday, according to the temple's manager.

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When a dog's bark woke Hannah Cooke in the middle of the night last year she found her husband breathing strangely next to her, before he stopped breathing completely.

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The stress starts even before the first cut, with intubation - the insertion of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

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Weight-loss drugs remain a risk to the company’s core business, seeing as Inspire Medical caters to patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder frequently linked to obesity.

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"A fish bone in the airways causing breathing problems is an emergency," she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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