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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

As billions of dollars slosh through Division 1 programs, parents are pouring money into their children’s athletic careers with an intensity unimaginable a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Even worse, because these chemicals don’t decompose, they simply slosh around, moving from our stuff to our bodies to the soil and the water—and back again.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2024

The new images reveal how heat can move like a wave, and "slosh" back and forth, even as a material's physical matter may move in an entirely different way.

From Science Daily Feb. 8, 2024

Why didn’t it bother me to slosh through the filthy water of the White River when hours earlier I’d found it intolerable to hear my stomach rumble?

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Nonacidic reflux, or contents in your gut that have been neutralized, frequently sloshes around and hits your esophagus, too.

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2023

Water sloshes around the floor of the chambers.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2020

She sloshes the perimeter of her tent with water taken from a hose bib on a building just up the street.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2019

The “open” circulatory system of insects doesn’t have vessels like capillaries to direct the hemolymph; instead, the hemolymph sloshes through the body cavity and helps to distribute dissolved nutrients.

From Scientific American May 6, 2019

Every wave sloshes over the sagging sides, bringing more water.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate-change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

In Bangkok, thousands experienced the quake's effects as buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2025

Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2024

Water sloshed from his pails with every stride, splashing round his legs, whilst his bells played a marching song.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Roll or shake the tire, and you are likely to succeed only in sloshing out some of the water.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

A sizable amount of that cash is going to overseas suppliers of chips and memory, but large sums are also sloshing around the U.S. economy as stimulus.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

Instead of sloshing cream into a hot skillet and hoping for the best, we are going to build a sauce with posture.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

Stillo, however, says the increase in core prices — which strips out food and energy — will likely be limited because of excess capacity sloshing around in the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

Amid the murk of night and the sloshing of a thousand tiny waves, most of them appeared to be moving.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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