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
“It’s very possible we’ll eliminate the bolus and still get the same efficacy.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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
It’s fortunate for the boy that he didn’t move, or Doctor Murphy would have been thrusting one of his big boluses down his throat and drenched him with black draughts.
From Paddy Finn by Archibald Webb
Assafœtida and camphor were useful, and were administered in boluses.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
But there was no help for it; he grinned and bore it, as he had the blisters, and boluses, &c., rolled the clothes round his shoulders, and off to the sleep of the just again.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
