ventilate
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The system could eventually help ventilate greenhouses and other buildings without relying on fuel.
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
Organizers should also find ways to ventilate the event space, including, potentially, by reducing seat capacity.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2023
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
“The fireplace used up all the oxygen. I’ve got to ventilate this place.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
Wherever possible the open fireplace is to be preferred to the stove for the reason that it very thoroughly ventilates the room.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
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
Stefan Merriweather, the chain’s creative director, said the layout creates more space, light and flexibility—and bathroom odors are better ventilated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
In other words, someone who has gotten really attached to their ventilated seats is willing to spend a bit more for that familiar comfort.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
They wore several layers of clothing and the tent was well ventilated so there was no condensation, he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025
More than two hundred screaming, sobbing, trembling and confused children jammed the badly ventilated hall, and, for lack of enough benches, most of us stood up like bristles.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
But Mr Gallagher said if there is evidence a tenant is not ventilating the home correctly, then the landlord may not be responsible.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2022
To reduce methane concentrations, large fans draw air into and through the mine, ventilating the methane into the atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
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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