gargle
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His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
I had just finished brushing my teeth and was about to gargle, so I went ahead and gargled.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
The senator was referring to a comment he made at a town-hall meeting in December suggesting that a “standard gargle, mouthwash, has been proven to kill the coronavirus.”
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Anti-vaccine advocates have promoted Betadine, a povidone-iodine antiseptic used to clean cuts or as a gargle for sore throats.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2021
The only slight drawback is that I’m one table over from Brij Nath and Matthew Weir, both of whom slurp cafeteria chili and gargle it in the back of their throats as a joke.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
Vocabulary lists containing gargle
"Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen
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