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puddle

[puhd-l] / ˈpʌd l /
NOUN
pool
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“If you’re trying to compact a mud puddle, it wouldn’t really compact, right?” he said at a trailhead off of Agoura Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

If there has been rain the night before, the hawk will take a bath in a puddle on the court's roof.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

As we watched the group wander about, a female capybara waded into a mud puddle along the truck path and rolled around happily.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Now, when we approach kids crowding the sidewalk, a curbside puddle or a dog crouching to pee, I stop and extend my arm like Sir Walter Raleigh, offering Sarah the right of first passage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

This one was tucked away in an area where private jets and small puddle jumpers landed and took off.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Never fear; she’s also seen stomping through puddles, the hallmark of every strong-willed lady.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

There’s sculling lingo to learn — eight seat, catching a crab, puddles, the engine room, rushing the slide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

As access reopened mid-morning, AFP saw the blackened remains of several burnt-out cars along roads near Omis, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat of the fires.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I was in a wedding dress and I was running barefoot through the puddles," says Iryna.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Her shoes were soaked from stumbling through puddles.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

We didn’t have a plan, just each other and the puddled roads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Video posted by a WTVF-TV reporter shows the water puddled up on the main floor’s concourse area and the team store.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

As rain poured and puddled on the sideline at Ross-Ade Stadium, the Purdue mascot dared the cheerleader to jump into the water.

From Fox News ● Oct. 2, 2021

The rewards might be a warm-spiced cabernet franc from the Loire Valley and loose coffee pastry cream puddled in a chocolate tart brushed with espresso syrup.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2021

The light lowered and there was June Somerset, books puddled around her feet.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

Others, fabricated from translucent amber resin that has hardened to a glossy sheen, are low and horizontal, oozing and puddling across the floor like pools of blood or toxic spills.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

"There have been numerous local measurements and theoretical discussions regarding the effects of water puddling on ice albedo," Kaczmarowski said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2024

Their purplish, blurred silhouettes seem printed on top of the ridges of milky paint depicting pale, layered figures and puddling abstractions.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

I have no actual evidence of puddling editors, but no matter.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021

A finger of warm wax was puddling out across the Bay of Seals, slow as a glacier.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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