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foam

[fohm] / foʊm /
NOUN
bubbles formed from a liquid
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As sellers waded through floodwaters to sell produce like fish and vegetables from floating platforms and foam boxes, buyers walked or paddled between the makeshift stalls to buy their groceries.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

It brought in a retired former employee as a consultant, used a special foam to release the trays and stacked them on boards rather than on top of each other to prevent cracking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Some stores had empty shelves over the weekend as residents raced to buy essentials, while fresh produce at market stalls was kept dry in polystyrene foam boxes or hanging just above the water level.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“We funded Chinook helicopters to drop more water and foam on the fire. We were doing anything we could, at frankly any expense, to try to minimize the impact of this fire on the community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I brought the stack of cards to my lap, sifting through the images before deciding on a Japanese woodblock print with white foam like snow atop the blue ocean waves.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

Since then, high-tech foams have been perfected to return more energy to the runner than ever and come in lighter than previous materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

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

Also banned are disposable cups and takeaway food containers made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

Pennsylvania officials will use 2,000 tons of lightweight foamed glass nuggets to fill in the section of a U.S.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Visible through a tangle of sea-grape trees, swells gently foamed over the inshore reefs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Together they plunged over a fall of green-hued stone, and foamed down into a dell.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Waiters weave through packed aisles carrying foaming one-liter mugs, and strangers at long wooden tables quickly become friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“There are contestants that become very polarizing and you’ll have people absolutely foaming at the mouth wanting them to lose,” says former champion Mattea Roach, speaking from experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

She calmly described how her mum had been foaming at the mouth and shaking, and clearly gave their address when asked, LAS said.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

The A12 cafe, on one of the busiest avenues in the capital, displays a large picture of a foaming pint on its window.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

The ocean, throwing up foaming sun-sprays across some nearby rocks, was winter cold.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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