bleed
Example Sentences
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The Chinese food-delivery giant continued to bleed from a brutal price war, posting a second straight quarter in the red.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
"I do think that community tensions are being exploited through social media, online anti-immigration sentiment and I think that's sort of having a bleed into what's actually happening on the ground," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
“All my cousins around the Southland… they all bleed Dodger blue,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
He takes a moment to let Mom's words bleed into him.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.