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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

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 slosh of olive oil and couple deft flips of the pan, and it’s ready.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

I held my coffee cup out so it wouldn't slosh as he turned.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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 way water splashes, sloshes, sprays and saturates — in the parlance of the industry — had to be “solved.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

The water sloshes in the cup as I try to grab it from her, spilling over the edge.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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 knight sloshed the dregs at the bottom of his tankard.

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

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

Their yolks stay creamy without becoming runny, which means you get all the richness of a soft-boiled egg without worrying about a container full of liquid gold sloshing around in your tote bag.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

An ocean of capital is sloshing into startups seeking to make AI computing more efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Once she had finished drinking, she began sloshing her trunk about, and splashing me with icy water, which I did not appreciate at all.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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