flesh and blood
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Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Great TV imbues its fiction with a soul, coaxing us to view fully crafted characters as beings of flesh and blood, or constructed unscripted scenarios as truth.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Dude No. 1 will always be Brady, a sixth-round pick now immortalized outside Gillette Stadium with a behemoth bronze statue that’s probably only a tick slower in the 40 than the flesh and blood original.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Often, it's the first time a medical student works with real flesh and blood - an experience that can't be replicated from a textbook.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
And she asked at last: “Gabriel...that Royal...he were your flesh and blood, weren’t he?”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
