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
Then we slosh buckets of water across the floorboards, using push brooms to sluice the resulting muck from the car.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Scientists believe hydrothermal water vents blast the core’s heat upward, thawing an expansive ocean that sloshes roughly 15 miles below the moon’s icy crust — far deeper than humans have ever dug on Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
The Golden Globe Awards telecast, which sloshes money through the entertainment economy, will return in January with an even bigger platform.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
He ties his horse to a sapling and sloshes back in driving rain to the place where the woman fell.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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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
Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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
The team created a model that showed how, instead of dissipating, it sloshed back and forth for nine days.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
The boat rocked and the water sloshed around the container.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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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
Maurten uses a substance called a “hydrogel”—a gel long used in medicine to deliver medication—to deliver fast-acting carbs without triggering stomach havoc or sloshing around during the race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Instead of sloshing cream into a hot skillet and hoping for the best, we are going to build a sauce with posture.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
The Evans men came sloshing back into the hall and stared incredulously at the rising water.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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