ooze
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But today, as A.I. widgets ooze through every crack of our digital lives, our reflexive outrage at the overreach is starting to wear down.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
"I was so red, my skin was so tight, then it would flake, then it would ooze, and then the cycle would begin again."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
But nearly two years later, water started to ooze from a different well in the same area, a sign that bottling up the geyser likely repressurized the subsurface and triggered the new outburst, scientists said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
I looked down and saw a drop of blood ooze out from under the broken nail.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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Building on the creative strides of “Hackney Diamonds,” their 24th studio effort, “Foreign Tongues” oozes with soulful R&B and high-octane rock.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
This thing oozes with what every sporting event craves: real stakes, total athlete buy-in, and absurd, camera-rattling atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The history of the Labour Party oozes out of the valleys of south Wales, perhaps like nowhere else in the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
Axial Seamount, by contrast, is a volcano that, during eruptions, oozes lava — similar to the type of eruptions in Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
The whites and the eyelids are red, and the yellow stuff oozes to the corners and out over the lower lids.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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A 20-year-old with ear piercings and ripped skinny jeans, Johnson oozed charisma; his profile on the app skyrocketed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
I watched in awe as melted cheese oozed out from inside, forming a delicious crust along the edges of my cooked omelette.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Infiniti oozed glamour in a lilac sleeveless Louis Vuitton dress with a fitted bodice and a cascade of ruffles tumbling from her hip to the floor, creating a long train.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
Raducanu oozed confidence in a 6-2 6-1 win that took exactly 60 minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
The strangest noises oozed from behind the locked door.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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It’s complete with a mashed potato “volcano” that’s oozing with gravy lava, along with dino nugget inhabitants and steamed broccoli for trees.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Towards the end of last year, the Kremlin leader was on TV in military fatigues several times, oozing confidence, as he discussed the Ukraine war with his generals.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
More bizarre and pernicious ideas are soon oozing from Peter’s every pore, beginning with the belief that the motel room is infested with insects that are feasting on his flesh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
"The embalming chemical, when we injected it into different main arteries, kept oozing out," Dr Bhargava writes.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025
My gaze fixes on a new trail of golden honey oozing from a crack, just within arm’s reach.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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