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"It would also mean that people across the UK have been breathing in far more harmful emissions from these vehicles than they were told about, potentially putting the health of millions at risk."

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

For years, Danish authorities have been breathing down the necks of the downtown community.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024

"The nurses said she really should not have been breathing on her own. They were about to take her to the NICU," said Robertson.

From Fox News • Jul. 7, 2021

Later she realized that her mask had gaps and she may have been breathing in radioactive dust.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2021

How hot, sultry, and enervating to the whole constitution of man, physically and mentally, is the atmosphere we have been breathing so long!

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William