oxygenate
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"It would oxygenate the market," says Stacy Mitchell is co-executive director of the US based non-profit Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which is part of the Athena coalition fighting to change the way Amazon operates.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Maternal blood to oxygenate us, all of us, when we were barely the size of a gummy bear.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
This caused a steep reduction in the number of burrowing invertebrates, which oxygenate sediments.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
The lungs never act rightly, never oxygenate the blood sufficiently.
From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Crimmins says that because Maria’s lungs were not providing enough oxygen to her and Dylan, she was placed on ECMO, a life-supporting measure that oxygenates the blood outside of the body.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
You breathe in a fast, rhythmic way that oxygenates your brain, activating your parasympathetic nervous system and relaxing you.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
But that story is only the embers of something more, which the film steadily exhales over, oxygenates and causes to flame up.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Nothing oxygenates the lungs like a sail, and your friends the fishermen would be delighted to have you as super-cargo.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
A year after their surgery, the amount of oxygenated blood pumped by the heart had increased by:
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
The fish that are collected are regularly transferred to a truck with an oxygenated tank and hauled to one of several locations in the delta to be released.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
In a shipworm burrow, a mussel could plug the hole with its body, creating a low-oxygen environment for its symbionts while still accessing oxygenated ocean water it needs outside the burrow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
A failing heart gradually loses its ability to properly supply the body with oxygenated blood.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
Berkner speculates that this is what happened to the great reptiles; their size may have been all right for a richly oxygenated atmosphere, but they had the bad luck to run out of air.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
These branches are ultimately responsible for oxygenating the blood in the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The latter is battery-powered, and when turned on it creates an oxygenating spiral motion in the water in the carafe, which is said to improve its taste.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023
It is used when a ventilator isn’t enough, pumping blood out of the body, oxygenating it, and then returning it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
So I walked and walked, oxygenating my lungs and mentally documenting all that was going on.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
