swoosh
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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
The air, bathed yellow by safe lights, smells of photographic chemicals and is filled with a rhythmic clicking and a shuttling swoosh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 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
He listened to the familiar sounds—the swoosh, crack of the sails, the creak, creak of the wood, the twang of the sailors’ voices.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bobby Hundreds: I was wearing Air Force 1s, they had custom Louis Vuitton swooshes on them, and he’s just like, “I like your Air Force 1s.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
There was not much to see, except the reflection of the blue sky punctuated with cotton candy swooshes of cloud.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
Silhouettes were truncated or unfurled at the top and bottom in swooshes of silk that resembled an opening flower.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
“Nagare-8,” from 1983, is a 32-foot-long paper banner in which two intense graphite stripes frame a row of turpentine-aided swooshes and drips.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
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
He grew a mustache that swooshed up at the ends.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
He had similar childhood epiphanies whenever cars swooshed by on the neighboring highway, or when his father flicked on his electric razor.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2019
Most had swooshed out past New Orleans and around English Turn.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Surprise swooshed up from the class like steam from a released radiator cap.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
"I was following a path along the valley when I suddenly felt something hit the back of my head accompanied by a swooshing sound," Nigel Crompton said.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025
“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
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
Roz sprang into a wild dance, her shaggy dress shaking and swooshing with each movement.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
