exhaled

verb

past tense of exhale
1
as in expelled
to let or force out of the lungs before answering, the suspect exhaled a cloud of cigarette smoke

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2
as in radiated
to throw or give off the lilacs were exhaling a sweet fragrance that virtually filled the room

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Recent Examples of exhaled Jeff Dean / Getty Images When Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow fumbled late in the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh exhaled with a 30-27 win over a division rival. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026 No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Still, no one exhaled when production finally moved to a water tank at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 Mosquitoes are drawn to backyards with standing water, dense greenery, and carbon dioxide exhaled by people and animals. — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026 Secondhand smoke is a combination of smoke exhaled by a smoker and the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar or pipe. — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Wall Street exhaled on Friday after SpaceX nailed its record-breaking debut. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 13 June 2026 The garment also pulls double duty by managing respiration, using a separate ventilation loop to gently blow fresh oxygen across the astronaut’s face while simultaneously vacuuming away exhaled carbon dioxide for scrubbing and recirculation. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026 But a sigh of relief was likely exhaled when Brunson returned to the bench. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhaled
  1. expelled
  2. radiated
  3. emitted
  4. released
  5. cast
  6. emanated
  7. issued
  8. evolved
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  • The seven Chi Phi members in question were expelled or suspended, but some of them were allowed to continue their education at the university following a monthslong Title IX investigation.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Had they been found smoking grass in the school they would have been expelled or at least given detention, but no one knew that their club met in the trap room under the stage.
    — Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
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  • As Edie, the sister of one of Brando’s fellow dock workers who is murdered, Saint radiated a palpable chemistry with her costar, the characters’ burgeoning romance undeniable.
    — Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The jet carries 500,000 times the energy radiated by the sun and explains the mystery of how feeding black holes become such powerful cosmic particle accelerators and generate such high-energy gamma-ray photons.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of radiated
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  • Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford had already shown that radioactive materials sometimes emitted particles, naturally changing the makeup of their atomic nuclei.
    — Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The physicists used that data to reconstruct the angles at which electrons and muons were emitted to infer the spins of the original Z bosons that preceded them.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
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  • There’s also the heating and cooling system, wherein heat generated by the hotel’s air-conditioning units is used to produce hot water rather than being released into the atmosphere.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Russian officials have not released figures on damage to the country's oil infrastructure.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of released
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  • Those who fail to cast a ballot without justification face a small fine.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • That cultural duality made her early casting endeavors more challenging than anticipated.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of cast
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  • As the sun set over Evanston on Friday, a golden glow emanated from the limestone exterior of Ryan Field, which was mobbed for the first time by the Wildcat faithful.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • An occasional bird would chirp in the distance, but the forest emanated an eerie stillness, said Young, a research ecologist at the University of California, Davis.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of emanated
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  • Auditors found the employee owned property in Idaho and had a driver’s license issued by the state.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) and the Cinematographers Guild of Korea (CGK) issued separate statements that evening.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of issued
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  • Fortunately for Anderson and countless others, the landscape around hepatitis C quickly evolved.
    — Philip A. Chan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • During the 20th century the trench coat and Burberry check evolved from functional design elements into enduring fashion symbols.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
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