foam
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Sometimes called a cloud couch, couch-in-a-box or modular floor sofa, this is a frameless, legless foam compression couch that sits directly on the floor and can open up into a bed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Choose a pair of foam wings — large or small — slip your arms through and stand in a life-sized wind tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
These include using foam strips, sealant and specialist chimney draught excluders if you don't use your fireplace.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
It all started back in 2010 with the introduction of the Hoka line of max-cushion shoes, which led other brands to develop similar styles, each stacked with its own patented lightweight foam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Vali’s human shape fell from him, and where Vali had stood was a wolf, foam flecking its muzzle.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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It is why they have been placed in thousands of items such as pots and pans, clothing and foams used to fight fires.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
They engineered carefully controlled porous materials that imitate the way natural foams scatter light while also drawing inspiration from water-repellent surfaces found on leaves and flower petals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The three movements include “an invocation to hands that weave”; “a meeting of foams, needles, songs, threats and pulsations”; and what Negrón calls “an archipelago of resonances and possibilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
The company said the Department of Defence kept using the PFAS-containing firefighting foams for two decades after it stopped selling the product in Australia.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Bile foams in my gut and my thoughts tumble every which way as I try to work out how I’m going to fit a dog into my already too-jam-packed life.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The straw made from foamed CDA was a prototype to see if increasing the surface area would accelerate break down.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Products like single-use packaging, plastic resins, foamed plastic insulation, bottles and containers, among many others, add to global greenhouse emissions.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
So far it has built 1,000km of foamed bitumen road surfaces and is "continuing to develop foamed bitumen techniques", according to its transport department.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
A tuft of foamed milk completes the steaming comfort.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022
The gray of the sky cast a dull reflection on the blue waves, and the sea spray foamed like dirty dishwater.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
The A12 cafe, on one of the busiest avenues in the capital, displays a large picture of a foaming pint on its window.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Because I know from experience that some of you are frothing, foaming and itching to reach out and tell me that illegal means illegal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
Symptoms of muscarine poisoning include muscle cramps, blurred vision, foaming from the mouth, vomiting and diarrhea.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025
We were caught in a sudden rush of foaming surf that raced off it in every direction, thrown hard onto a surface of metal grates.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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