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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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As billions of dollars slosh through Division 1 programs, parents are pouring money into their children’s athletic careers with an intensity unimaginable a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

This cycle occurs when changes in tropical wind patterns — or trade winds — allow a massive reservoir of sun-baked seawater to slosh east across the Pacific and up against the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Even worse, because these chemicals don’t decompose, they simply slosh around, moving from our stuff to our bodies to the soil and the water—and back again.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2024

The new images reveal how heat can move like a wave, and "slosh" back and forth, even as a material's physical matter may move in an entirely different way.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024

The beaver ponds are never more than chest deep, but the water is cold, and as we slosh forward, our feet chum the muck on the bottom into a foul-smelling miasma of decomposing slime.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Nonacidic reflux, or contents in your gut that have been neutralized, frequently sloshes around and hits your esophagus, too.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023

The way water splashes, sloshes, sprays and saturates — in the parlance of the industry — had to be “solved.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

For instance, what happens when water violently sloshes against the side of a pool or when crude oil hits the inside of a pipeline?

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2022

She sloshes the perimeter of her tent with water taken from a hose bib on a building just up the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2019

My hands shake as I set the mug back down, and it sloshes on the table.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate-change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

In Bangkok, thousands experienced the quake's effects as buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025

Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

I poured the water on the steps, sloshed it with my shoe, and ran to join them.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Roll or shake the tire, and you are likely to succeed only in sloshing out some of the water.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

A sizable amount of that cash is going to overseas suppliers of chips and memory, but large sums are also sloshing around the U.S. economy as stimulus.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Their yolks stay creamy without becoming runny, which means you get all the richness of a soft-boiled egg without worrying about a container full of liquid gold sloshing around in your tote bag.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Maurten uses a substance called a “hydrogel”—a gel long used in medicine to deliver medication—to deliver fast-acting carbs without triggering stomach havoc or sloshing around during the race.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

With unusual awkwardness he grabbed a juice pitcher, lost his grip, and ended up sloshing an entire quart of juice all over Kate’s feet.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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