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drip

[drip] / drɪp /


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In the heat and humidity of Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, that meant the shuttle stack would start to drip like a water bottle on a muggy day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Late this summer, a steady drip of positive economic news put to rest fears of a slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

One can imagine a slow drip of consumer horror stories having a chilling effect on people’s interest in Muse-like apps.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Trainline has been accused of drip pricing before.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

She patted him dry so he wouldn’t drip.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

For your new owner, Angels fans, you get a proven winner and real estate developer — more on that in a second — whose very name drips with baseball history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The vineyard has a system of piping spread across 1.85 hectares of the vines, which steadily drips water onto the ground around the plants' roots, and is turned on every few days.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Christie's called Number 7A, 1948, which depicts black drips of paint with touches of red on a huge canvas spanning more than three metres, a key piece of art history.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Rain drips down the plane windows; I complete the “Ask and Trust” deck, which opens with a Dr. Becky video.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Mom leans so far forward that she spills her own juice, and it drips into her lap.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Brackish water dripped down Anna Drzewiecki’s arm as she showed me a palm-sized oyster she had just pulled from a cage at Glidden Point Oyster Farms on Maine’s Damariscotta River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

According to government research from 2023, almost half of online businesses it sampled used hidden or dripped fees.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

He tried to wipe it away with his sleeve, but he was too slow, and it dripped down onto his black shirt, joining a galaxy of white stains that looked like the night sky.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

That deficit quickly dripped away and Feller was a picture of shock as he realised he had won after his Swiss rival streaked through the finish line in second.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

The huge creeping vine that cloaked the house had shriveled; the main trunk and stems sagged and dripped oily sap.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Back to the town the swaying torches reeked, Within the green-striped tent the lights expired, The dew dript from the canvas where it leaked.

From King Cole by John Masefield

The night air was raw with the chill of thawing snow, and carried no sound but the soft tinkle of the sap as it dript swiftly into the birchen cups.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull

“Artists come here from all over the world to be part of it, and there’s so much music dripping out of the honeycomb of this town that I’m in it. I’m in it neck-deep.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

From Bela Lugosi’s original ‘Dracula’ cape to a room dripping with blood, here are the highlights of the Academy Museum’s new celebration of horror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

In her “wife school” series, Clark interviewed her new sister-in-law, Katie Voetberg, a prairie dress-clad podcast host and mother of six, about how to avoid being a “nagging wife” and a “constant dripping faucet.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

“You’re dripping down the initial lobby, then you’re going up the elevator, you’re dripping through the reception area of this office. There’s just a lot going on, and why?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Carmen looked over at Tony, fast asleep with drool dripping out the corner of his mouth.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis


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