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[hel-thee] / ˈhɛl θi /


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“I am healthy and will continue to defend LHS.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Hunt is the first of 50 healthy volunteers aged 18-55 being recruited for the trial.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

But, when they do, treat their promises with a healthy degree of skepticism.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

"I don't understand why we can't have a good and healthy discussion on this issue."

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Nhamo thought this was a strange arrangement, but Mother explained that Efifi wasn’t a healthy place for children.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“By compounding lower churn with healthier unit economics, we have generated the strongest operating position we have seen in years.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

At the same time, a healthier dollars-per-win ratio isn’t necessarily a sign of something good.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Lord Timpson said in his resignation statement that he had left "our prisons and probation service in a much healthier and happier state than two years ago".

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

According to folks online, the final treat is meant to taste like cookie dough — but healthier.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

And you’ll be surprised to learn that hunter-gatherers ate better, grew taller, lived longer, and were healthier than “civilized” people.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The healthiest part of the labor market is, well, healthcare.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

As experienced surgeons leave, he says, the more junior ones lose their mentors and become increasingly "risk averse", only choosing to use the healthiest donated organs offered to them.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

It is easy to forget that, even in today’s healthiest countries, we are only four or five generations removed from a world where most people, most of the time, died of infectious disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Qi Dai, MD, PhD, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and lead author of the study, explained that the healthiest vitamin D range appears to fall in the middle of a U-shaped curve.

From Science Daily Dec. 30, 2025

Dr. Medina wanted in on the fight, and promised her healthiest animals would help, too.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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