breath
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Take a breath: Get ready to buy the dip in tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the lyrics, the singer professes his love for a girl called Celeste over a melancholy piano line, saying: "I hear her voice each time I take a breath".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“You can get short of breath and cough even years after smoking just because of that natural loss of lung function,” Lee says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Practice meditation, even if it’s just going for a walk without music to observe breath and step.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
I suck in a breath when I see that one of the first on the list is The New York Times.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Did watching my son perform at his piano recital cause my breaths to get shallow?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The academic recalled during the Apollo missions to the Moon, "we all held our breaths a little bit."
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
The sigh of relief was like a million angel breaths.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
For Dunk, leaving Tanselle to Aerion would have meant killing the knight within himself — a spiritual suicide that would render his continued breaths both meaningless and tormented.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
He stood still and breathed in hiccupping breaths.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
