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hale

[hayl] / heɪl /


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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

Logan is hale and full of bluster in his limo on the way to his flight, giving no hint as to what’s coming.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

During passage through several thousand years it transformed into hail, hale, health, hallow, holy, whole, and heal, and all of these still move together through our minds.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Mary E. Hanshew

You never could find a haler man, Tan-ta-ta-ran-tan-tare!

From Nights in London by Thomas Burke

He was now seventy years old; and a haler, heartier, more serene old man was never seen.

From The Talkative Wig by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

“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

If he is accused of violating one of scores of petty rules, he is haled before the "adjustment council" without right to counsel.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The moment she heard of my trouble, she was out of the car and haling me up to the Château as if there was a mob at our heels….

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates




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