fizz
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This new sobriety probably takes some of the fizz out of what the sociologist Emile Durkheim called the “collective effervescence” that revelers feel while partying together in large groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Forklifts whirr along, pallets laden with red, white and fizz.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
I’ve served Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne to die-hard Champagne lovers and those who aren’t big fans of fizz, and both have held out glasses for more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Carpenter closed, as she always does, with “Espresso,” and if you’d assumed that by now this breezy electro-pop bop would inevitably have lost some of its fizz, think again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
The hammer fell and sparks danced out of the chamber with a fizz!
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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Yann Martel’s novel contains deep tragedy while its tone fizzes with life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
This does not mean the trapped water glows or fizzes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
A bright start for England, Jarrod Bowen fizzes in a cross from the right and Ivan Toney tries to meet it with a leaping volley, but can only send it against his own arm.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024
Not everything purrs or fizzes quite as one would like.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
So we each get A fistful of sparklers, Firecrackers, A paper log cabin That smokes and fizzes, Rockets that shower sparks About the height Of the clothesline.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
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The edgy appeal of “Erupcja” is in the way it maps humans as molecules and electrons, fizzed by location, inspired by connection, driven to hover, fuse and release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Garnacho's run and cross teed up Palmer for a low strike that fizzed just wide from 10 yards.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Luis Diaz and Andy Robertson came close for Liverpool either side of half-time before Elanga's first-time shot fizzed wide at the end of a flowing Forest move.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
Cunha fizzed a low shot wide just before the break and Pedro Neto fired straight at Andre Onana before Varane's decisive effort.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
At the back end, its propellers fizzed through the water and left a trail of frothy waves in its wake.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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This version is easily the equal of the original: fizzing with humor, and infused with a tenderness and melancholy sympathy for all its characters, mostly members of a family from the so-called 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
The minds of these young people are alive and fizzing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Regardless of whatever else people like or dislike about it, just the sort of fizzing energy beneath the skin of everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall sends in a fizzing free-kick which Wout Faes connects with a header to force a save from Anthony Patterson.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
The listlessness concealed a mind which was fizzing and flashing thrillingly.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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