flesh and blood

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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

“To have had the opportunity to come back and to really play, discover, and put flesh and blood and sinew and heartbeat into this woman, to really fill her out,” O’Reilly says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

First, the threats to the new evangelization are not of flesh and blood.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2024

Something else slipped out of the pages, though, something breathing, a creature made of flesh and blood.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke