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Rather than removing damaged tooth material and placing a filling, a dentist uses a tiny sponge tipped applicator to paint the liquid directly onto the cavity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Kreiz has been involved in major restructurings too and can act as something of a pain sponge for Ellison when the company starts making its cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

He smooths the features of the head -- which he says weighs more than a ton -- with a yellow sponge, while another craftsman adds clay to the fingers of the enormous hands.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Rangers and volunteers at Attingham Park, in Atcham, have been building dams, restoring ponds and planting trees, in a bid to use their land as a sponge for the River Severn and River Tern.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

His body will suck it in like a sponge.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The geographic features are hot spots of biodiversity, with corals, sponges and even an octopus garden, just like in the Beatles song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Mosquitoes, glass sponges, and earthworms are among the lineages that stand out in this way.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Environmentalists also say river bank fortifications destroy shallow-water zones where aquatic life and insects breed -- and the adjoining natural floodplains that act like sponges at times of excess water.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Tommy, who used acrylic paint and a mixture of brushes and sponges to achieve different textures, said: 'I just wanted to make something colourful, plus feet are easier to draw than faces!

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Nancy handed tools to him, and she reached her fingers inside the monkey to tie off blood vessels and mop up excess blood with small sponges.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The magnesium had an unexpected beneficial effect: It "sponged out" inadvertent impurities in the tantalum and, as a result, raised the temperature at which it operates as a superconductor.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024

Pastor Pam and Jen lowered me gently to the ground, a kneeling, knowledgeable Officer K sponged me to consciousness and remained with me until the Fire Department arrived.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

She sponged the mattresses with disinfectant and, eventually, took in a stray cat to fight the rodents.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

‘If you put water on them it takes the heat off. That’s why horses are sponged sometimes before or in the paddock and certainly after the races.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2019

While he laid out those simple rules for the Time Suck, Sheed gathered his bike and sponged spit off his face with his b-ball jersey.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Generative AI is developing so quickly that soon the large-language models sponging up information on the internet will run out of content to feed on.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

It was Herder who called Europe’s voracious expansionism worldwide “the grand European sponging enterprise.”

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2018

In the movie, it’s easy to identify Kroc as an amoral exploiter, sponging off the labors of Dick and Mac.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

And she so appreciated Charles’s letters: “Your minute accounts are such a comfort and I enjoyed sponging our dear one with vinegar as much as you did.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman