oxygenate
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Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Maternal blood to oxygenate us, all of us, when we were barely the size of a gummy bear.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
This caused a steep reduction in the number of burrowing invertebrates, which oxygenate sediments.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
They are going to recirculate his blood to oxygenate it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2020
The lungs never act rightly, never oxygenate the blood sufficiently.
From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Crimmins says that because Maria’s lungs were not providing enough oxygen to her and Dylan, she was placed on ECMO, a life-supporting measure that oxygenates the blood outside of the body.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
You breathe in a fast, rhythmic way that oxygenates your brain, activating your parasympathetic nervous system and relaxing you.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
But that story is only the embers of something more, which the film steadily exhales over, oxygenates and causes to flame up.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Nothing oxygenates the lungs like a sail, and your friends the fishermen would be delighted to have you as super-cargo.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
Marine productivity remained lower, the ocean became highly oxygenated, and less organic carbon was buried.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
Modern alternatives to ice boxes are available that keep hearts beating and oxygenated while they are being transported.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
"The puzzle pieces are fitting together and really underscore how life was able to diversify and live in this new, oxygenated world."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
Amniotic fluid embolism can lead to heart and lung failure, which causes several complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
The heart scrambling to deliver oxygenated blood, the mind scrambling to unravel the situation.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
These branches are ultimately responsible for oxygenating the blood in the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The latter is battery-powered, and when turned on it creates an oxygenating spiral motion in the water in the carafe, which is said to improve its taste.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023
Bacalar is famed for its crystalline waters, which host some of the oldest life on the planet: 3-billion-year-old living fossils called stromatolites that are thought to be responsible for oxygenating the atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Alex took several deep breaths, hyperventilating and oxygenating his blood, knowing it would give him a few precious extra seconds.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
