oxygenate
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Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Maternal blood to oxygenate us, all of us, when we were barely the size of a gummy bear.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
After a particularly big bloom at McLeod Lake in 2006, Stockton installed a bubble system in the Stockton Deep Water Channel to oxygenate the water and break up the algae, the Record reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
This caused a steep reduction in the number of burrowing invertebrates, which oxygenate sediments.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
Can you breathe freely and easily the proper amount of air to oxygenate your blood and give you health and strength?
Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Crimmins says that because Maria’s lungs were not providing enough oxygen to her and Dylan, she was placed on ECMO, a life-supporting measure that oxygenates the blood outside of the body.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
These strategies of remote control also extend to Banksy’s dealings with the news media, whose publicity oxygenates his fame and mystique, but whose enquiries can be an irritant.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
But that story is only the embers of something more, which the film steadily exhales over, oxygenates and causes to flame up.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
The air goes into the lungs, and that oxygenates the blood, but the lung has to inflate if the air is to penetrate all its vesicles.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
Marine productivity remained lower, the ocean became highly oxygenated, and less organic carbon was buried.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
"The puzzle pieces are fitting together and really underscore how life was able to diversify and live in this new, oxygenated world."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
Amniotic fluid embolism can lead to heart and lung failure, which causes several complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
A year after their surgery, the amount of oxygenated blood pumped by the heart had increased by:
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
Berkner speculates that this is what happened to the great reptiles; their size may have been all right for a richly oxygenated atmosphere, but they had the bad luck to run out of air.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
These branches are ultimately responsible for oxygenating the blood in the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The latter is battery-powered, and when turned on it creates an oxygenating spiral motion in the water in the carafe, which is said to improve its taste.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023
Bacalar is famed for its crystalline waters, which host some of the oldest life on the planet: 3-billion-year-old living fossils called stromatolites that are thought to be responsible for oxygenating the atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Alex took several deep breaths, hyperventilating and oxygenating his blood, knowing it would give him a few precious extra seconds.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
