Rescue
verb
To save from a dangerous or distressing situation.
Firefighters managed to rescue the child from the burning building.
Often appears as...
- rescue from
- rescue team
noun
The act of saving from a dangerous or distressing situation.
She thanked him for the rescue.
Often appears as...
- come to the rescue
- thanks for the rescue
verb
To remove or recover (an asset) from a bad investment or unproductive use.
They managed to rescue their assets from the collapsing stock market.
Often appears as...
- rescue assets
- rescue investment
verb
To save from a dangerous or distressing situation.
Firefighters managed to rescue the child from the burning building.
Often appears as...
- rescue from
- rescue team
noun
The act of saving from a dangerous or distressing situation.
She thanked him for the rescue.
Often appears as...
- come to the rescue
- thanks for the rescue
verb
To remove or recover (an asset) from a bad investment or unproductive use.
They managed to rescue their assets from the collapsing stock market.
Often appears as...
- rescue assets
- rescue investment
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Heroic Connotations
Rescue often implies bravery and heroism in the effort to save others.
The lifeguard's daring rescue was praised by everyone on the beach.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency and Emergency
The term 'rescue' suggests immediate action is needed to prevent harm.
A call for rescue goes out when a hiker is trapped on a cliff.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Responders
Rescue often involves trained professionals, like firefighters or coastguards.
The rescue team responded quickly to the flood victims in need.
Pro Tip 1/3Heroic Connotations
Rescue often implies bravery and heroism in the effort to save others.
The lifeguard's daring rescue was praised by everyone on the beach.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency and Emergency
The term 'rescue' suggests immediate action is needed to prevent harm.
A call for rescue goes out when a hiker is trapped on a cliff.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Responders
Rescue often involves trained professionals, like firefighters or coastguards.
The rescue team responded quickly to the flood victims in need.
Pro Tip 1/3Heroic Connotations
Rescue often implies bravery and heroism in the effort to save others.
The lifeguard's daring rescue was praised by everyone on the beach.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency and Emergency
The term 'rescue' suggests immediate action is needed to prevent harm.
A call for rescue goes out when a hiker is trapped on a cliff.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Responders
Rescue often involves trained professionals, like firefighters or coastguards.
The rescue team responded quickly to the flood victims in need.
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The Reality Behind...
So what's your hope for the future of this place? Well, I hope with with more awareness raised around these animals that people will be able to take better care of them in captivity. And we'll see the numbers that are needing to come into the rescue reduced because we are almost at full capacity here. And we've got waiting lists of various different things waiting to come in.
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle.
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Puppy Mills PIPE National...
think they're rescuing a puppy from a pet store and the reality is this is a business and you're not rescuing that puppy you're simply opening up a cage for another puppy to be ordered up because as soon as that cage is empty there's another puppy coming it's it's so important that people take
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How to use a semicolon -...
then, they become enlightening, finally, you'll find yourself falling for these delightful punctuation marks." Even though the commas separate different parts of the sentence, it's easy to lose track of what belongs where. But then the semicolon edges in to the rescue.
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Wild Beavers Return...
isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened up put into into deep ditches drainage networks were set up so that any rain which got away from here as fast as
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Daydreaming: The bridge...
other day and she was like oh yeah yeah I loved that whole maiden in the tower daydream when I was a kid I was like no I wasn't the girl locked in the tower I was the guy on the horse rescuing the girl on the tower I was the
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Saving a Pangolin's Life...
animal in the world critically endangered and facing extinction it is a difficult battle and the odds aren't with them maria's fight for pangolins began just five years ago she runs an organization that rescues
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Attenborough: Amazing...
who have been rescued from captivity and returned to the wild. Because they've lived partly in our world as well as theirs, they can give us an insight into what we have in common. This old lady loves DIY.
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Sir David Attenborough...
rescued from captivity and returned to the wild because they've lived partly in our world as well as theirs they can give us an insight into what we have in common this old lady loves diy
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Kailash Satyarthi: How...
has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue, freeing children from slavery.
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The Reality Behind...
So what's your hope for the future of this place? Well, I hope with with more awareness raised around these animals that people will be able to take better care of them in captivity. And we'll see the numbers that are needing to come into the rescue reduced because we are almost at full capacity here. And we've got waiting lists of various different things waiting to come in.
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle.
Video examples
Puppy Mills PIPE National...
think they're rescuing a puppy from a pet store and the reality is this is a business and you're not rescuing that puppy you're simply opening up a cage for another puppy to be ordered up because as soon as that cage is empty there's another puppy coming it's it's so important that people take
Video examples
How to use a semicolon -...
then, they become enlightening, finally, you'll find yourself falling for these delightful punctuation marks." Even though the commas separate different parts of the sentence, it's easy to lose track of what belongs where. But then the semicolon edges in to the rescue.
Video examples
Wild Beavers Return...
isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened up put into into deep ditches drainage networks were set up so that any rain which got away from here as fast as
Video examples
Daydreaming: The bridge...
other day and she was like oh yeah yeah I loved that whole maiden in the tower daydream when I was a kid I was like no I wasn't the girl locked in the tower I was the guy on the horse rescuing the girl on the tower I was the
Video examples
Saving a Pangolin's Life...
animal in the world critically endangered and facing extinction it is a difficult battle and the odds aren't with them maria's fight for pangolins began just five years ago she runs an organization that rescues
Video examples
Attenborough: Amazing...
who have been rescued from captivity and returned to the wild. Because they've lived partly in our world as well as theirs, they can give us an insight into what we have in common. This old lady loves DIY.
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
rescued from captivity and returned to the wild because they've lived partly in our world as well as theirs they can give us an insight into what we have in common this old lady loves diy
Video examples
Kailash Satyarthi: How...
has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue, freeing children from slavery.
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Quote examples
Tony La Russa
American Coach
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.
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Warren Spector
American Designer
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Ken Follett
Welsh Author
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
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Mayte Garcia
American Dancer
My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.
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Jarvis Cocker
English Musician
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
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Zak Bagans
American Author
I have realized that when you rescue your pet from a shelter, it is the most amazing feeling in the world how this animal changes your life by giving it a better one.
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Emmylou Harris
American Musician
I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
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Paul Shaffer
American Musician
When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.
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Armistead Maupin
American Novelist
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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Beth Ostrosky Stern
American Actress
I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.
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Tony La Russa
American Coach
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.
Quote examples
Warren Spector
American Designer
On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Quote examples
Ken Follett
Welsh Author
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
Quote examples
Mayte Garcia
American Dancer
My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.
Quote examples
Jarvis Cocker
English Musician
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
Quote examples
Zak Bagans
American Author
I have realized that when you rescue your pet from a shelter, it is the most amazing feeling in the world how this animal changes your life by giving it a better one.
Quote examples
Emmylou Harris
American Musician
I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
Quote examples
Paul Shaffer
American Musician
When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.
Quote examples
Armistead Maupin
American Novelist
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
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Beth Ostrosky Stern
American Actress
I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.
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