backwash
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The Royal Family has had a difficult start to 2024 - uncertain in the face of health problems and surrounded by a backwash of rumour and speculation.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
"It's still the backwash of the freeze-in... the crude oil number implies that the refineries are not up and running," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho in New York.
From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2023
Rather than absorbing wave energy, seawalls and riprap can create backwash that collides with incoming waves, engineers realized, setting off supercharged turbulence that chews away at shoreline protection.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
“This generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space,” Kennedy declared.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2021
I looked back to a ferry passing the Statue of Liberty now, its backwash a curving line upon the bay and three gulls swooping down behind it.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
She hired an assistant who sanitizes the tables, outdoor bathroom and shower, and backwashes the pool between events.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
The water plunges between razor-sharp rocks, whipped to a froth by backwashes, submerged logs and even a sunken locomotive that derailed into the river years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
In spite of the stationary eddies or momentary backwashes we observe here and there, its stream moves in a definite direction, ever swelling and broadening.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
Broad currents of thought go on their way without being deflected by backwashes, or eddies or spurts into blind passages.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
At that season the river had sunk into its narrowest bed, and there were backwashes and sluggish channels full of light-green tinted water.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
On that backwashed clay, the Mathews clan would scratch out a living grazing livestock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2017
The spark is seen first like a lone star in a black sky, then a flame front spreading and backwashing around the base of the chamber.
From Time Magazine Archive
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