hale
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A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
During the 1918–19 flu pandemic, however, doctors and other observers noted a high death toll among young, presumably hale adults.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 9, 2023
Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
Is his “quality of life” what I would wish for him or what he imagined when hale?
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
The trail maintainers in Maine have a certain hale devotion to seeking out the rockiest climbs and most forbidding slopes, and of these Maine has a breathtaking plenitude.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He still hadn’t gone back to work, but I thought he never looked haler or heartier, or neater or spiffier.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Many a haler remnant than he had gone down on a last voyage.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack
And it is not because of his seventy-six years, either, for a haler and heartier man never lived—until Paula started this wicked thing upon him, and began making him bread-and-milk for supper.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.
He was now seventy years old; and a haler, heartier, more serene old man was never seen.
From The Talkative Wig by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
“Unsurprisingly, corporations did not relish the prospect of being haled into court for any claim anywhere they conducted business,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“Once the president is haled into court, there are innumerable obligations that flow from that,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
At one point the miniaturized siblings are haled into court for boarding a train without tickets.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2017
"Any person haled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him," wrote Justice Hugo Black.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or such-and-such a merchant had wept when haled before the Liberty Tree and sworn never to do trade with England until all grievances had been righted.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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Some of the aircraft were given “vectors” that would take them around airspace over the haling warship.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
“There’s a special indignity that can cause diplomatic tension about haling a foreign official personally … into court,” John Bash, an attorney representing the fund and al-Rumayyan, told the court at a hearing last month.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023
Kalanick was necessary for one part of creating the ride haling industry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Strange it may be, but for Jordi Savall the haling comes quite naturally.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011
I had scarcely finished numbering them when Marc'antonio came down the track, this time haling a recalcitrant she-goat by a halter.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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