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foam

[fohm] / foʊm /
NOUN
bubbles formed from a liquid
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Some stores had empty shelves over the weekend as residents raced to buy essentials, while fresh produce at market stalls was kept dry in polystyrene foam boxes or hanging just above the water level.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“We funded Chinook helicopters to drop more water and foam on the fire. We were doing anything we could, at frankly any expense, to try to minimize the impact of this fire on the community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Yet the white foam of the waves, the snow covering Mount Fuji, and the clouds in the sky contain no white pigment at all.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Think iced fruity drinks, protein shakes and so-called dirty sodas - a concoction of foam, syrups and juices.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The foam is so great, it seems like falling, frenzied snow.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The "infinite personalisation" through foams, flavours, and protein are "almost pure profit" for the chain.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Electrolyzers require components in practical forms such as metal meshes and foams, so laboratory performance alone is not enough.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 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

Since then, high-tech foams have been perfected to return more energy to the runner than ever and come in lighter than previous materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Spring fog foams over the ramparts of the newly opened Belle Isle Bridge.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Pennsylvania officials will use 2,000 tons of lightweight foamed glass nuggets to fill in the section of a U.S.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Visible through a tangle of sea-grape trees, swells gently foamed over the inshore reefs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Since then, Queensland has been using a process called foamed bitumen stabilisation.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022

They helplessly watched the danger around them grow as the once-gentle tides now foamed with fury.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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

Symptoms of muscarine poisoning include muscle cramps, blurred vision, foaming from the mouth, vomiting and diarrhea.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2025

We can see where the river, foaming, falls, disappearing over a ridge.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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