gasp
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That proved to be the last gasp for the American attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was quickly wiped out as Iran's push for a winner intensified, Mehdi Taremi scudding the bar, causing a visible gasp to emanate from the table below.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Lee, then, is left wondering if this is the true nature of mortality: a long pattern of disappointments, up to and including the moment you gasp your final breath.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Standing in her kitchen, Nicole Fontanez let out a gasp as she cut open a cardboard box, revealing a plastic figure of Yoshi, Mario’s dinosaur-like friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
My voice left me in a cracking gasp.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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And as Ma gasps her final breaths, she makes her smart little girl promise to never lose sight of her ultimate goal.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
There were gasps in the crowd when Sinner slipped behind the baseline during the third set and took time to return to his feet, with the umpire heading over to check on him.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Pike said she hoped the guilty texter was a doctor and that their message had been "very important", during an impromptu speech which drew gasps and then cheers.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
This is look No. 1 at the photo shoot for this story, and everyone in the room — producers, photo assistants, editors — stop to stare, little gasps mutating into big ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
I hear people scrambling around, some gasps, and teacher-shoed feet running to me, but also the unmistakable sound of Gene the Mean laughing.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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It was clear in the audio that he gasped.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
As young men flinched and gasped around me at the Los Angeles premiere of “Obsession,” I almost had to laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
When students gasped, he said: “That’s where all this AI hype comes from. We’re not good at programming consciousness. But we’re great at imagining nonconscious things are people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
"Muhammet hit the seagull!" he gasped, referring to the goalie.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
“What have you done?” she gasped, struggling to save the little air left in her lungs.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Other symptoms include waking up a lot, loud snoring and gasping, snorting or choking.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the darkness, partially kneeling, gasping for air and practically immobile, he suffered aftershock after aftershock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
And while health care has deteriorated badly in recent years because of shortages of medicines and equipment, it remains free — a system gasping but not abandoned.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, many local broadcasters are gasping to stay solvent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Jack yelled, pushing the gasping prince off him and running to the door, but both the Huntsman and the Red Hood had disappeared.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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