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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

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

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

The "house side" of traps always ventilates into the rooms, and hence it is important that they be kept scrupulously clean.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry

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

Dr McCartney says you can also reduce your risk of colds by being in well ventilated spaces and washing your hands regularly and properly.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

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

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

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

Then Dad went off into his favorite subject: ventilating air through the mine.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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