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wheeze

[hweez, weez] / ʰwiz, wiz /


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If this week shows anything, though, this wheeze, like all such wheezes, has finally sown the seeds of its own obsolescence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

And next stop is the Old Firm game at Ibrox, which both clubs pant and wheeze towards.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

Preschool asthma/recurrent wheeze is a leading cause of hospital admissions in children and results in poor lung function which persists for decades.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

And the man would wheeze and squirm like the weasel had.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

If this week shows anything, though, this wheeze, like all such wheezes, has finally sown the seeds of its own obsolescence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

They communicate through grunts, bellows and wheezes, a form of vocalization that plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the group.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024

Whatever cunning wheezes No 10 conjures up, the hole the Conservatives need to climb out of is very deep.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023

Two and a half years after her infection, Rodríguez can accomplish most daily activities, but she becomes breathless and wheezes when she carries her toddler daughter or does chores such as mopping the floor.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

How is it possible that I’ll never hold him or pet him or hear his wheezes again?

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Their offense has sputtered and wheezed, even as their defense has done its part to keep them in games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

But I’m the kind of person who trained for, and wheezed his way through, a cycling tour of Provence with his dad, but who almost never rode to work.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2023

In a hallway, half a dozen patients wheezed on metal benches as oxygen tanks pumped air into their noses.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

It started in mid-September with Vance, 5, who came down with RSV and wheezed so badly that his skin was pulling in and out of his ribs with every breath.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

I don’t mean to be rude, Grand Elder Gherland,” wheezed Elder Raspin.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Breathing air with high levels of NO2 can irritate airways, cause coughing, wheezing or make it difficult to breathe and worsen diseases like asthma.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Symptoms can appear within seconds, and include swelling of the throat, wheezing, coughing and difficulty breathing.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Smoke exposure during the fires also took a toll: 40% reported worsening respiratory symptoms, including coughing, shortness of breath and wheezing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

It’s like the quarterback and homecoming queen losing a popularity contest to a wheezing weirdo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

She and Slopper ran up and down the hall a few times before Slopper, wheezing and holding his rounded side, huffed, “All right, enough, jeez. Let’s lay down a bit.”

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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