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respirator

[res-puh-rey-ter] / ˈrɛs pəˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
artificial lung
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Respirator technology that works well for urban structure fires doesn’t translate easily into wildland areas, where crews often are working in remote, high-altitude terrain and carrying supplies on their backs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021

Mr. Adams, 79 and now retired, started a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Adams Respirator Therapeutics, which produced his best known product, Mucinex.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2016

She solicited her neighbors, quickly collected the $2,000 a Drinker Respirator costs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The use of Blue Cross compounds by Germany in the summer of 1917 rendered this matter more urgent, and a special filter jacket was designed which fitted round the Small Box Respirator.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor

Mr. McN-ll.—A knitted Respirator, to be worn in the House.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 by Various




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