perspire
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When you perspire, the sweat on your skin can pull heat from your body as it evaporates.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023
And he said, ‘Coach, quarterbacks don’t sweat. Quarterbacks perspire.’
From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2022
That perhaps does hint that summer’s sultry grip on our imaginations and our propensity to perspire may be on the wane.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
Sustained exposure to certain thresholds of high heat and humidity makes it difficult for people’s bodies to cool down, as they cannot effectively perspire.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
The coaches were afraid we’d perspire and slip on the equipment, so even though we didn’t own the warehouse space, my parents paid to install air-conditioning throughout.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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