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wheeze

[hweez, weez] / ʰwiz, wiz /


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He makes bleak comedies about strivers with shiv-like gags that make you wheeze in pain.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

After 28 days, respiratory symptoms of cough, wheeze, breathlessness and sputum were found to be better with benralizumab.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

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

Germany's constitutional court has declared this wheeze illegal.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

I can hear Mango wheeze from across the room as I pack up my watercolors.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass




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