slosh
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As billions of dollars slosh through Division 1 programs, parents are pouring money into their children’s athletic careers with an intensity unimaginable a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
This cycle occurs when changes in tropical wind patterns — or trade winds — allow a massive reservoir of sun-baked seawater to slosh east across the Pacific and up against the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Even worse, because these chemicals don’t decompose, they simply slosh around, moving from our stuff to our bodies to the soil and the water—and back again.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2024
The new images reveal how heat can move like a wave, and "slosh" back and forth, even as a material's physical matter may move in an entirely different way.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
When they smile, The hands of old tins Touch their hearts And the viejos raise Their half-finished beers To the slosh of salud.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
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Venturing into space offers “the illusion of expansion” into a limitless cosmos, whereas our ocean sloshes across a planet we feel we've already conquered.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Nonacidic reflux, or contents in your gut that have been neutralized, frequently sloshes around and hits your esophagus, too.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
Coffee sloshes from her cup, occasionally threatening her “Today” show uniform.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
She sloshes the perimeter of her tent with water taken from a hose bib on a building just up the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2019
My hands shake as I set the mug back down, and it sloshes on the table.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate-change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
In Bangkok, thousands experienced the quake's effects as buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
Water sloshed my ankles and I kicked off something slimy.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Roll or shake the tire, and you are likely to succeed only in sloshing out some of the water.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
A sizable amount of that cash is going to overseas suppliers of chips and memory, but large sums are also sloshing around the U.S. economy as stimulus.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
However, I can’t say that the steep cost of a Fire Island weekend hasn’t been one of the primary factors keeping me from boarding the ferry and sloshing around the Long Island Sound.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
BOGOTA, Colombia—They were on their feet long before the final out was recorded—beer sloshing, tri-color flags unfurling, voices cracking—and not just for Tuesday night’s baseball victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
By Monday morning, the fleet of school buses came sloshing through slush.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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