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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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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

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

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

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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