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oxygenate

[ok-si-juh-nayt] / ˈɒk sɪ dʒəˌneɪt /
VERB
add oxygen
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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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

By the humid way we can oxygenate most combustible bodies, and convert most of the oxyds of the three kingdoms of nature into acids.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

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

These strategies of remote control also extend to Banksy’s dealings with the news media, whose publicity oxygenates his fame and mystique, but whose enquiries can be an irritant.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020

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

The deep respiration oxygenates the blood and gives us power to resist diseases.

From What Every Singer Should Know by Millie Ryan

The tribunal found Ali "failed to obtain informed consent" from Patient B through the vitamin C, oxygenated water, sodium bicarbonate and ozone therapy treatments.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

"The puzzle pieces are fitting together and really underscore how life was able to diversify and live in this new, oxygenated world."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

Amniotic fluid embolism can lead to heart and lung failure, which causes several complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

The study unveiled that Siikaneva peatland, located in southern Finland, releases highly oxygenated organic molecules at night, leading to aerosol particle formation closely resembling the pre-industrial atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

The heart scrambling to deliver oxygenated blood, the mind scrambling to unravel the situation.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

In this land of plentiful, oxygenating trees, everyone is alone, and people cough into the crook of an elbow anyway.

From New York Times ● May 4, 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




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