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[floh] / floʊ /




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Puerto Rican rapper Eladio Carrión, whose trap flow famously featured in songs like “Coco Chanel” with Bad Bunny and “Sigue Bailandome,” was also honored with the Inspira Award.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

In a battery, electrons flow from cathode to anode, external when charging and in the opposite direction when discharging or providing power.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

For the most recent quarter ending June 30, Alphabet recorded negative free cash flow, meaning that the company’s spending on AI infrastructure and data centers outpaced the cash generated by its core business.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Future work will also examine whether improved glymphatic flow directly causes better recovery and whether circadian-based interventions can eventually be tested in clinical trials.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The heat had melted huge sections of glacier, and the water had begun to flow downstream.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Exports from the Persian Gulf have been growing strongly over the past week, with some estimates putting the flows nearing levels before the U.S.-Iran conflict, ANZ Research analysts say in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But while tech analysts on Wall Street expect cash flows to explode in 2028, that same optimism isn’t reflected by analysts covering other sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Liontrust is focused on what it can control and isn’t waiting for flows to turn, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Le Monde said Starmer's successor Andy Burnham had pressed Macron during talks in September to keep the deal alive but "Paris was in a hurry to end the cooperation on controlling migrant flows."

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

And the magic flowed and flowed from the old witch into the new, the way water flows down the mourn tain.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The investment boom inspired by the artificial-intelligence build-out is increasing competition for investment capital that might have otherwise flowed into the Treasury market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Earlier studies, including research led by Stern, had proposed that liquid once flowed on Pluto in the distant past.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Once the words came, they flowed cinematically, telling a coast-to-coast coming-of-age story fit for the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

When the markets reopened six days later, patriotism flowed freely despite price declines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Residents in Brentford have raised concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network, with dead animals washing up over the summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Her floral, flowing clothes and romantic aesthetic are not things she feels compelled to shed in order to be taken seriously as a chef.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

When the 2023 flood came, his crew scrambled to set up about 30 diesel pumps and sent water flowing onto a vineyard and orchards of almonds, pistachios and olives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Bow shocks are typically produced when material flowing away from a star slams into its surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sela and I looked at each other, shy smiles on both sides, my hair pinned up and hers loose and flowing over her shoulders.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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