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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

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

A quick glance at his bowls — one empty, the other with hardly a slosh of water — does nothing but reinforce my resolve.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

She compared the way it sloshes around to a bucket full of very fine, very dry beach sand.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020

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

She sloshed through the shallows to the base of the rock, then climbed up to its jaw and peered into its open mouth.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

Before I even knew where I was, I found myself pulled along by somebody’s hand in the dark and a horrible fiery sting sloshing up my calves.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver