lifeblood

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas transits, has boosted the price of oil, the lifeblood of the Russian economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“Theatrical windows used to be the lifeblood of independent film, and now it’s basically gone,” said David Offenberg, an associate professor of finance at Loyola Marymount University and author of the book “Independent Film Finance.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

"Football was his lifeblood," said Jordan, noting that after the Bradford fire, Yorath attended the funerals of all those who died.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

By the time of the 1998 presidential election, the country’s economic crisis had become worse: The price of oil, the lifeblood of the economy, had collapsed to $10 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

The portrait people were still missing from their frames; the whole place was eerily still, as if all its remaining lifeblood were concentrated in the Great Hall where the dead and the mourners were crammed.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling