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
We want children to grow into knowledge, not to swallow numberless facts made up into boluses.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
And as for pills and boluses and bottled goods guaranteed to reduce your weight, and as for all these patented treatments and proprietary preparations which you see boosted in the papers—bah!
From One Third Off by Tony Sarg
This consists in swallowing after each full meal a few small sausage-shaped boluses of flour, honey and butter, flavoured with anise-seed or something similar.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
