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They pay in having to cope with sizzling health waves, powerful hurricanes, and suffocating wildfire smoke.
Discovering that plants need sunlight to grow, or that fish will suffocate when taken out of water, requires no quantification of anything whatsoever.
Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is - Issue 92: Frontiers | Jeremy England | October 21, 2020 | NautilusScores of businesses in the city are suffocating as they delay their return to work or, worse, decide to work from home forever.
We’ve read through quite a few letters about Zoom, suffocating family dinners, the role of sound and music, birthdays and anniversaries, and racially charged encounters.
Letter-writing staved off lockdown loneliness. Now it’s getting out the vote. | Tanya Basu | September 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn industries where specific brand names have become synonymous with their original product, new brands can easily be suffocated out of the game.
Inbound marketing for brand awareness: Four up-to-date ways to do it | Ali Faagba | September 11, 2020 | Search Engine WatchHer adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.
Somewhere in the theater, you also hear a soft, whimpering, “Help”—a woman is about to suffocate on her own tears.
Ranking the Saddest Scenes in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ | Kevin Fallon | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI hated that the town response to tragedy and suffering was to suffocate the afflicted family with attention.
How 'The Little Way of Ruthie Leming' Taught Me It's OK to Love My Hometown | Justin Green | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYet the key development will hinge on sanctions aiming to suffocate the regime, a current point of division.
5 Key Moments to Watch at the General Assembly | Daniel Stone | September 19, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBefore You suffocate Your Own Fool Selfby Danielle Evans A powerful short story collection from a rising star.
As it was, ere he had time to suffocate, MacPherson was on the spot.
Earth's Enigmas | Charles G. D. RobertsThey would first suffocate, and later their bodies would be swallowed up in the stomach of the earth.
The Land of the Changing Sun | William N. HarbenThe gas emitted from this fissure is so strong that it would suffocate a person, holding his head near the ground.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXX | Joel PalmerInsects do not easily suffocate, and it is worse than useless, in the majority of cases, to punch air-holes in such boxes.
Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. RileyMany females in fact cry out at those times, that something has broken in the throat, and they fear they are going to suffocate.
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