bolus
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Nelson and other researchers fear their projects could be left behind if the U.S. government doesn’t ante up a similar bolus of funding.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 2, 2024
“The bolus of boats in and out of the locks is a delight, as is listening to the sea lions.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Finally, it pushes that bolus back to be swallowed, making sure no food enters the airways.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023
“Persistent Vision” is a digital bolus of D.C. punk rock stretching from 1976 to 1992.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022
Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
And public-health departments' ability to identify threats has been bolstered by boluses of federal money after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and subsequent anthrax attacks, and in the 2009 stimulus package.
From Nature ● Jul. 24, 2013
The Sears catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will suspect nothing and come, and the ginger boluses can be blessed even as the bread and cheese.'
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
You take one of these boluses just before each meal and one before going to bed.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson
They then swallow three times a day regular boluses of paste, and are not allowed to take exercise.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson
