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ventilate

[ven-tl-eyt] / ˈvɛn tlˌeɪt /


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In the future, the technology could help ventilate greenhouses or residential buildings without conventional energy sources.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

After turning off the burners and opening windows to ventilate the apartment, the team contacted firefighters and stayed with the woman until they arrived.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

This can cause people to snore, or it can also completely obstruct the airway and cause people to not be able to ventilate well.

From Scientific American Jun. 29, 2023

You want to validate their experiences, and you want them to ventilate about what they went through.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2023

He began by advising her to moderate the rigor of her mourning, to ventilate the house, to forgive the world for the death of José Arcadio.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As we followed a trail through waist-high grass, the sun was hot and a ridge blocked the breeze, the steady trade wind that reliably ventilates the Caribbean.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2015

The mastoid portion of the temporal bone, which can be felt as a bump in the skull behind the pinna, also contains air, which ventilates through the middle ear.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Like a healer, he helps us to come to terms with the miseries he ventilates on our behalf.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2010

And when their various pathologies grow suffocating, the director of photography, Michael Hardwick, ventilates the movie with pure Alaskan light and scrubbed, cerulean skies.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2010

It ventilates the atmosphere, and prevents the "golden-fretted vault" from becoming "a foul congregation of vapours."

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Keep them ventilated during the day and, where possible, close internal doors between the conservatory and the rest of the house.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Durga Devi finds no relief after a day working in New Delhi's sweltering summer, because her poorly ventilated home radiates trapped heat, leaving her bedroom as hot as 45 degrees at night.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

The Calligraphy is a bower of abundance, where visitors can recline in plushly padded, heated and ventilated captain’s chairs, dressed in high-grade Nappa leather: the Relaxation Mode seating package.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Plus, the standard Model Y covers up Tesla’s usual panoramic glass roof with a fabric headliner, and neither model comes with ventilated front seats.

From MarketWatch Oct. 13, 2025

The interior of the nests are like a three-dimensional maze, intricate arrangements of spiraling galleries, corridors, and arched vaults, ventilated and air-conditioned.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

These include ventilating your kitchen when cooking by opening you windows, using air purifiers and using exhaust fans that move the air to the outdoors.

From BBC May 26, 2023

Fortunately, we can reduce that risk by ventilating buildings and filtering the air we breathe.

From Scientific American Dec. 20, 2022

These include “changing guidelines on ventilating patients, the use of high dose steroids in hospitalized patients, and identifying previously unknown or overlooked safety issues with some novel antiviral therapies,” Kheriaty declared.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2022

Castex made basic recommendations for New Year’s Eve, including avoiding big parties and dinners, wearing a mask, ventilating the room and getting a COVID-19 test — all “common-sense actions,” he said.

From Seattle Times Dec. 27, 2021

With the hook stuck in one of the ventilating holes in the top of my light, I lifted it back out on the ice and set it down.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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