foam
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It also froths milk and makes cold foam, which opens up even more possibilities for a build-your-own drink bar.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
It's no secret that exposure to loud music can damage your hearing, and small foam ear-plugs have long been available at venues.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Thick foam from the building’s insulation floated by on streams that leaked from the hulking shell, which firefighters have been drenching for days since the fire erupted on the roof the afternoon of June 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Last July, a North Korean civilian tied plastic foam to his body for buoyancy and swam down the Korean Peninsula’s west coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
I stretched my foam pad and sleeping bag out in the sled to settle in for the night.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
One of the chemicals found by both the EA and the independent testing is PFOS, a substance banned in the UK due to potential carcinogenic risks, often used in firefighting foams.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered the real reason liquid drains from foams, resolving a long-standing scientific puzzle.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
Spring fog foams over the ramparts of the newly opened Belle Isle Bridge.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
Since then, Queensland has been using a process called foamed bitumen stabilisation.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
It foamed and raged and swept citizens along in its wake, but Nora alone was strong enough to outjump it.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
Sweet water foamed around them, pushing them along.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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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
Initial findings from the investigation into the blaze suggest that it was caused by sparklers igniting soundproof foaming that lined the ceiling.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
I’m not foaming at the mouth over the death of cinema or what have you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
They frequently contain colors, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, thickeners, foaming agents and emulsifiers, and typically cannot be produced in the home.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Past small office buildings; past the bicycle repair shop; and now she could see the river that bordered the community, its dark water moving swiftly, foaming around rocks here and there.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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