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swoosh

[swoosh] / swʊʃ /




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The swoosh may outperform Wall Street’s expectations when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on June 30.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Ted Walsh, former assistant equipment manager for the San Francisco 49ers, got so good at inking the Nike swoosh that he could draw it in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024

Atop his head was a black hat with a white Nike swoosh.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

He was also wearing grey and blue trainers "with a fluorescent swoosh," according to police.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

I picked up the swoosh of a drag, like a bag or maybe a body.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Throughout the treatment, there are the sounds of repeated brush swooshes, shampoo lathering and sloshing water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

But the ubiquitous sparkle of sequins and in plays in shape — slits in gowns, asymmetrical coats and swooshes of diagonal fabric on skirts — gave the collection motion.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

As Hernandez laughs, Murphy goes on: “I talked to Nike the other day. They said it was really hard to put the Nike swooshes on orange jumpsuits.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020

Mr. Debargue brings subtle swooshes of flamenco flair to some of the minor-key sonatas, like K. 115, in C Minor.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2019

When she swooshed out the doors of the White House after one particularly pointed encounter with Trump, her sunglasses and burnt-orange winter coat were quickly the stuff of social media memes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

“Public spaces should have public art happenings,” Pinque said as Bluebee Troll swooshed its cratered face against the glass pane.

From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019

Most had swooshed out past New Orleans and around English Turn.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

“I want to be a lifestyle brand,” she declared two weeks before the Nordstrom appearance, pink-manicured fingertips firmly on the wheel of her white Mercedes as it swooshed down the U.S.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2015

Surprise swooshed up from the class like steam from a released radiator cap.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

“The only memories I really have are mainly at night. You could hear the swooshing of all the iron lungs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

Mr Gilliver moves towards the camera, swooshing his light sabre before disappearing down the trap door.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

But then the sweepers start to trickle in, swooshing across in balletic punk pageantry.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

I also found out that it lets me turn my cursor into a lightsaber that plays the swooshing sounds as I move my mouse around until I toggle the feature again by typing lightsaber.

From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022

He’s laughing, but I can see the worry swooshing around inside of him.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt




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