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"He displayed remarkable phlegm in very dangerous conditions.",
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"Keegan half expected a sensory flashback to the choking heat and the taste of dusty phlegm and gunpowder residue. \u2014 August Cole, Wired , 5 June 2020",
"Technicians can ask a patient to cough up phlegm , known as sputum, but doing so substantially raises the risk of infecting health care workers. \u2014 Lydia Depillis, ProPublica , 10 Apr. 2020",
"Haley said even her cat was coughing up phlegm and acting lethargic. \u2014 Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com , 6 May 2020",
"For sputum samples, a patient coughs to produce phlegm or mucus, which is collected and analyzed, but if those samples don\u2019t have enough material, the lab cannot run the tests. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 21 Mar. 2020",
"Roberta Bivins points out in her history of alternative medicine that for most of Western history, medical wisdom held that physical health relied on the balance of the four humors (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm ). \u2014 Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic , 7 Mar. 2020",
"Nearby, one man cleared his throat and spat an oyster of phlegm onto the sidewalk. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2020",
"Health officials can use a variety of tests to determine whether someone has contracted the virus, including a nose swab and testing a person\u2019s phlegm . \u2014 Nic Garcia, Dallas News , 4 Feb. 2020",
"Franny occasionally chokes on his phlegm and needs suctioning, and relies on a personal care attendant with experience providing respiratory care. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2020"
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"Some people are phlegmatic , some highly strung. Some are anxious, others risk-seeking. Some are confident, others shy. Some are quiet, others loquacious. We call these differences personality \u2026 \u2014 Matt Ridley , Genome , 1999",
"Why would a man live like this",
"But Einstein was phlegmatic : when a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein , he retorted, \"If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!\" \u2014 Stephen W. Hawking , A Brief History of Time , 1988",
"a strangely phlegmatic response to what should have been happy news",
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"One of Banky\u2019s first public murals to receive widespread attention portrayed a phlegmatic Teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at riot police. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Such audacities were otherwise quashed in Holbein\u2019s supervening duties to phlegmatic patrons. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"While Putin saw these events as cataclysmic, Merkel already seemed to have the strangely phlegmatic attitude toward grand ideas of history that would characterize her sixteen-year reign as chancellor of the united Germany. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Neither hyperactive grandstanding in Paris nor phlegmatic passivity from Berlin has prevented the emergence of a common Western position. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 21 Feb. 2022",
"The Diamondbacks\u2019 approach heading into the 2021 season was decidedly phlegmatic . \u2014 Tony Blengino, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Massimiliano Allegri, given the circumstances, was surprisingly phlegmatic . \u2014 New York Times , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Both the phlegmatic Pliny the Younger and the priapic and ill-fated Diocles also have their say. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine , 17 Aug. 2021",
"The North Stars, led by phlegmatic coach Bob Gainey, upset Chicago first, then the Blues \u2014 finishing both in a Game 6 in front of a fanatical crowd that included many young, thirsty folks who had warmed up by tailgating in the Met Center lots. \u2014 Star Tribune , 10 July 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the flytrap, the phloem \u2014the tissue that transports nutrients through a plant\u2014contains ion channels through which charged particles can flow. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 1 Mar. 2022",
"The fungi thrive in those channels and the phloem and wood around it. \u2014 Star Tribune , 10 Mar. 2021",
"Larvae hatch from eggs and chew side galleries, feeding on the phloem and the fungi. \u2014 Hillary Rosner, National Geographic , 1 Oct. 2020",
"The galleries block nutrient flow in the tree\u2019s phloem layer. \u2014 Hillary Rosner, National Geographic , 1 Oct. 2020",
"Just inside the bark is a cylinder of tissue known as the phloem . \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 16 Apr. 2020",
"When the phloem is lost all the way around by injury like this (or by weed trimmer damage at ground line), the roots will die and the tree will die. \u2014 Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com , 16 Apr. 2020",
"If the tree is still creating foliage, then water and nutrients are being transported from the roots to the tree canopy, so the phloem and xylem are still functional. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 Feb. 2020",
"Christopher Vincent, a physiologist at the University of Florida who studies citrus greening, said the waxy coating on the leaves of orange trees has been an impediment to delivering oxytetracycline into the plant\u2019s phloem , or vascular system. \u2014 Andrew Jacobs, New York Times , 16 Aug. 2019"
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": a fiber found in or associated with the phloem that is often commercially useful (as in flax) because of its great tensile strength and pliability and that differs from the xylem fiber in that its pits are usually small and simple":[]
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": any of a genus ( Phlox of the family Polemoniaceae, the phlox family) of American annual or perennial herbs that have usually pink, purplish, white, or variegated flowers, a salverform corolla with the stamens on its tube, and a 3-valved capsular fruit":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Other spring flowers to look for at Wehr include hepatica, phlox , violets and marsh marigolds. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The pink moon is so named because spring phlox are often in bloom this time of year. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Linder is also keen on low-maintenance native grasses such as little bluestem and prairie dropseed interspersed with coral bells, hostas, lilies and tall garden phlox paniculatas. \u2014 Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"Instead, the name comes from the wild ground phlox , a pink flower that typically blooms in April. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 1 Apr. 2022",
"In the spring, her garden was a Monet: a blur of bright pink phlox , deep purple lupine, blue hyacinth, and yellow and red tulips. \u2014 Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
"As cited in the Farmer\u2019s Almanac, the Pink Moon is named after moss pink (also called creeping phlox ), which is an abundant springtime flowering plant native to the eastern U.S. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
"However, wildflowers like the Texas bluebonnets, spiderworts, wild onions, phlox and blanketflowers are expected to follow their typical bloom patterns beginning late March, DeLong-Amaya said. \u2014 Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The nickname comes from the shrub-like wild phlox that covers the ground in the spring. \u2014 Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic , 15 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Patients at the town spa come to treat rheumatism and phlebitis . \u2014 Bob Morris, Town & Country , 3 May 2018"
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"New Latin, from Greek phleb\u014dd\u0113s full of veins, with large veins, veinlike (from phleb- + -\u014dd\u0113s -ode) + New Latin -ium":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lavoisier didn\u2019t think that Priestley was right about phlogiston , prompting a long-running battle. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 25 Aug. 2017"
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"New Latin, from Greek, neuter of phlogistos inflammable, from phlogizein to set on fire, from phlog-, phlox flame, from phlegein":""
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"type":[
"noun,",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to combine phlogiston with":[
"highly phlogisticated substances"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-t\u0259\u02cck\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phlogistic + -ate":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-062812"
},
"phlogistic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to inflammations and fevers":[],
": of or relating to phlogiston":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"fl\u014d-\u02c8ji-stik",
"fl\u014d-\u02c8jis-tik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-062843"
},
"phlomis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of Old World mints having rugose often woolly leaves and whorls of white, yellow, or purple flowers with bilabiate corolla":[],
": a plant of the genus Phlomis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fl\u014dm\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin phlomis, phlomos mullein, from Greek":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-121215"
},
"phloionic acid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a crystalline hydroxy acid [\u2212CH(OH)(CH 2 ) 7 COOH] 2 that is among the acidic products formed by alkaline hydrolysis of cork; 9,10-dihydroxy-octadecane-dioic acid \u2014 see suberin":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6fl\u014d\u0113\u00a6\u00e4nik-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phloionic from Greek phloio s bark + English -onic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160607"
},
"phlebotomy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the drawing of blood (as by venipuncture ) for transfusion, apheresis , diagnostic testing, or experimental procedures":[
"While scientists struggle to understand the molecular subtleties of hemochromatosis, the clinical treatment of the disorder remains remarkably primitive: serial phlebotomy . That is, weekly bloodletting.",
"\u2014 David A. Shaywitz"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"fli-\u02c8b\u00e4-t\u0259-m\u0113",
"fli-\u02c8b\u00e4t-\u0259-m\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Working with our Refugee Services Office, Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah have trained refugees in fields like phlebotomy and pharmacy tech, hiring many into critical healthcare jobs. \u2014 Spencer J. Cox, Fortune , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Witnesses often spent hours on the tedious minutiae of finance, chemistry, technology and phlebotomy . \u2014 Erin Griffith, New York Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Once the iron level is in the target range, periodic phlebotomy is necessary to keep the iron in the normal range. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 28 July 2021",
"Existing capability differs wildly \u2014 some providers already offer home visits, home physio, home phlebotomy and prescription delivery. \u2014 Tom Moon, Forbes , 7 May 2021",
"Myton was laid off too and was thinking of studying to be a phlebotomy technician or perhaps a dog groomer. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Dec. 2020",
"The school also includes phlebotomy and electrocardiographic technician instruction. \u2014 Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune , 29 July 2020",
"The school also includes phlebotomy and electrocardiographic technician instruction. \u2014 Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune , 29 July 2020",
"The school also includes phlebotomy and electrocardiographic technician instruction. \u2014 Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune , 29 July 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English fleobotomie , from Middle French flebothomie , from Late Latin phlebotomia , from Greek, from phleb- + -tomia -tomy":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-161752"
},
"phloic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": relating to, consisting of, or located in the phloem":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fl\u014dik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phlo em + -ic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170303"
},
"phlebotomus fever":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": sandfly fever":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"fli-\u02c8b\u00e4-t\u0259-m\u0259s-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Phlebotomus , genus of sand flies":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1910, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-172915"
},
"phlogopitization":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the development of phlogopite in a solid rock":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phlogopite + -ization":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-180845"
},
"phleboid":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": having the properties of or characterized by veins":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fle\u02ccb\u022fid"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phleb- + -oid":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-184321"
},
"phlebotomic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to phlebotomy":[],
": bloodsucking":[
"\u2014 used of insects"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6fleb\u0259\u00a6t\u00e4mik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"phlebotomic from French phl\u00e9botomique , from Middle French phlebotomie phlebotomy + -ique -ic; phlebotomical from phlebotomy + -ical":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-194839"
},
"phlebology":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":{
": a branch of medicine concerned with the veins":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"fli-\u02c8b\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113",
"fli-\u02c8b\u00e4l-\u0259-j\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1839, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-213135"
},
"Phlegethon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a river of fire in Hades":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fle-g\u0259-\u02ccth\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek Phlegeth\u014dn":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-213847"
},
"Phlegethontal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or resembling a river of fire : burning":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-ej\u0259\u00a6-",
"\u00a6fleg\u0259\u00a6th\u00e4nt\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin phlegethont is phlegethontal (from Phlegethon , principal river of Hades that ran with fire instead of water, from Greek Phlegeth\u014dn , from phlegethein to blaze, from phlegein to burn) + English -al or -ic":""
