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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

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

Randall Gibbs, another resident of the Sun Valley village, agreed, even as he talked about hearing waves slosh against the metal exterior of the tiny home he shares with another man and two dogs.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 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 purpose was not to have fun but to do some aerobatics and cause the fluid in my inner ears to slosh around.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Scientists believe hydrothermal water vents blast the core’s heat upward, thawing an expansive ocean that sloshes roughly 15 miles below the moon’s icy crust — far deeper than humans have ever dug on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2024

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

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

The water sloshes from one tank to another, in the direction opposite the one in which the wind is moving the building.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2020

The inner tube lurches, sloshes, and bounces along.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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

Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2024

The team created a model that showed how, instead of dissipating, it sloshed back and forth for nine days.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2024

So Dallas and Florida had run down the hill and sloshed through the creek, and then they ran up the opposite hill, and on top of it they whooped and hollered.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

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

The money sloshing around AI today was unfathomable not long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Instead of sloshing cream into a hot skillet and hoping for the best, we are going to build a sauce with posture.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

“Well, Sue, there’s two foot of Bay water sloshing about down there.”

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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