flesh and blood
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In 1967 she recorded Curly Putman’s “Dumb Blonde,” her first charting song as a singer and a savvy choice that spoke to her as both an image and as flesh and blood, as she sang:
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 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
He was the palpable reality that clothed the revolutionary rhapsodies in flesh and blood, America’s one and only indispensable character.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
