hale
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A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
During the 1918–19 flu pandemic, however, doctors and other observers noted a high death toll among young, presumably hale adults.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 9, 2023
Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
Logan is hale and full of bluster in his limo on the way to his flight, giving no hint as to what’s coming.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023
They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He still hadn’t gone back to work, but I thought he never looked haler or heartier, or neater or spiffier.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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My father took it for forty years, and there wasn't a haler man in the country.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
"And you—well, you look just the same as ever; only fuller and haler."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Many a haler remnant than he had gone down on a last voyage.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack
“Unsurprisingly, corporations did not relish the prospect of being haled into court for any claim anywhere they conducted business,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“Once the president is haled into court, there are innumerable obligations that flow from that,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
At one point the miniaturized siblings are haled into court for boarding a train without tickets.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2017
Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or such-and-such a merchant had wept when haled before the Liberty Tree and sworn never to do trade with England until all grievances had been righted.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Some of the aircraft were given “vectors” that would take them around airspace over the haling warship.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
“There’s a special indignity that can cause diplomatic tension about haling a foreign official personally … into court,” John Bash, an attorney representing the fund and al-Rumayyan, told the court at a hearing last month.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023
Kalanick was necessary for one part of creating the ride haling industry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Strange it may be, but for Jordi Savall the haling comes quite naturally.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011
As the saints would have it, that very minute I oped the door, was Dame Elizabeth haling forth silver in her lap, and afore her stood the jeweller’s man awaiting to be paid.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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