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
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. 10, 2023
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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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
Then he addressed the other ancient witness, who looked even haler than his companion.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Many a haler remnant than he had gone down on a last voyage.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
“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
Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut.
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
This, involving claim to kingship over the Jews, and therefore rebellion against the Empire, was made the plea of haling him before the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, for trial.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
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