lad

Example Sentences

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The widowmaker isn’t always fatal, but a blockage in the LAD can cause the heart to stop beating, and to vibrate frantically in what’s called fibrillation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

By being in the environment, hearing the language and most important, understanding the language, somehow or other something kicks in in the brain called the LAD — the language acquisition device.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

Dr. McCormack later told me a heart attack that occurs when the LAD is completely or almost completely blocked is commonly known as the widowmaker.

From Fox News • Aug. 23, 2021

He paid tribute to hospital staff who diagnosed a blocked LAD artery - the main artery running down the front of the heart.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2018

"DEAR LAD, "As I said to her most glorious majesty, I say to you now.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles