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
A machine may be allocated a wide range of quotidian writing tasks, but let flesh and blood hold fast the art of writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
Dane, fully flesh and blood, but one hundred percent of nothing.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
