gush
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Lee Ratcliffe, head teacher at Calderstones School in Liverpool, says he felt a "gush of pride" at seeing the teenage friends triumph in the BBC series' finale this week.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
In the face of slowing iPhone sales, Cook pushed online services such as music and video streaming, which contributed to the gush of cash generated from Apple’s app store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
But when two of her Calvin Klein coworkers gush, “You’re going to be the American people’s princess!” my inner narrator countered, “No. Not so much.”
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
The agent took the opportunity to gush about ICE’s new state-of-the-art semi-automatic tasers and brand-new pepper-ball guns.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
But in the 1980s and 1990s a gush of new information about the first Americans came in from archaeological digs, anthropological laboratories, molecular biology research units, and linguists’ computer models.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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On that last track, recorded a dozen years ago, Mr. Lloyd, playing alto sax, seems like a fountain, distilling fragments of songs and scales into a narrative that spills forth in graceful gushes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Next, it's a serum designed to make your skin glow, "Oh my god it's so glowy," she gushes.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
“I’ve basically modeled my whole look and style after you,” Carpenter gushes when she and Piggy finally meet in the recent special.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
Taylor Swift gushes on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ about how Travis Kelce ‘crushed it’ with his marriage proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
“I’m so looking forward to college,” she gushes.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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The world that Meg created, I find to be so vibrant and intoxicating and delicious,” Bareilles gushed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Floor-to-ceiling windows opened to the south and east, bathing the space in natural light,” Jacobs gushed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
During the fire’s rapid spread, the water system quickly lost pressure as crews drew heavily on hydrants, residents ran sprinklers and hoses, and water gushed out of melted pipes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Americans are falling in love with Vietnam and its dual communist–capitalist system of government and economics,” some guy in Hanoi could have said after I gushed to him about how much fun I was having.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Words gushed from the chaplain in a nervous torrent.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Storms can overwhelm the aging facility, which suffered an equipment breakdown in 2021 that led to 17 million gallons of raw sewage gushing into the Santa Monica Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nepal's Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal said an earthquake likely triggered a landslide that in turn blocked a river, sending water gushing downstream after it eventually breached the obstruction.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
His face was wet and gushing with joy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
His gushing about being another Napoleon allows me to note that a couple of years ago I suggested the only way to handle Donald Trump was to exile him to a nice island somewhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
But I’m acutely aware that I’m the only one gushing.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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