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[spray] / spreɪ /




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“A quick spray glistens the whole body but I do extra for my arms,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The primary suite serves as its own private retreat and features an en suite bathroom with a soaking tub, double sinks, and a full-body spray shower.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Every robot that faceplanted, lost a limb, or disintegrated in a spray of sparks was borne away on a stretcher by human attendants with deadpan solicitude.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

But individual farmers as well as more than a dozen associations that represent growers, agricultural retailers and firms that spray pesticides have voiced opposition to the changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

A magnificent spray of white carnations, red roses, lavender, and baby’s breath blanketed the length of Great-great-aunt Florentine’s closed casket.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Those halos can indicate sprays of regolith thrown outward by a fresh impact.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

As the sprayer drives through a field, it intermittently sprays the weeds while passing over the crops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Buying candles, diffusers and room sprays "can help create a warm, cosy atmosphere, especially as we move into the colder months".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

A former electrical engineer who moved from his native Kentucky to take a defense job, Montgomery founded the company in 2023 with an eye toward getting pesticide sprays out of suburban yards.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

The dragon dove down and skidded to a halt, sending sprays of gravel in every direction.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Scented cleaners release terpenes when fragrance compounds evaporate from sprayed droplets or cleaned surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

A woman sprayed each of us with rose essential oil to help with grounding.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In Stourbridge near the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I kind of sprayed the ball a little bit,” Skubal said after a 6-5 win over Kansas City in his Dodger Stadium debut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Soap sprayed from the nozzle head of a shower when you turned the knob a certain way?

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

They include gas leaks, spraying substances to cover the smell of fumes and failing to properly maintain idle wells, among others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Routine tasks such as mopping floors, spraying countertops, and wiping surfaces with scented products generate billions or trillions of particles, with the total depending on the product.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

But a quieter race is also under way to deploy self-flying planes, first for jobs like crop spraying and cargo delivery – and eventually, many of their makers hope, carrying passengers too.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

At one training company visited by AFP, humans holding what looked like PlayStation controllers repeated a single task -- folding clothes, moving blocks, spraying a canister -- as humanoid partners mirrored their actions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

You’d think a reasonable person would understand that turnabout is fair play, but you’d be surprised how quickly reason goes out the window when the bugs start spraying back.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston




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