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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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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

Randall Gibbs, another resident of the Sun Valley village, agreed, even as he talked about hearing waves slosh against the metal exterior of the tiny home he shares with another man and two dogs.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 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

When they smile, The hands of old tins Touch their hearts And the viejos raise Their half-finished beers To the slosh of salud.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

Venturing into space offers “the illusion of expansion” into a limitless cosmos, whereas our ocean sloshes across a planet we feel we've already conquered.

From Scientific American Jun. 20, 2023

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

The way water splashes, sloshes, sprays and saturates — in the parlance of the industry — had to be “solved.”

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2022

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

I can only watch as the monkey falls about twenty feet into the river, the impact creating a modest bloop in the blue-brown water that sloshes beneath the dock.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

People on a bus lifted up their feet as water sloshed around the vehicle:

From Slate Sep. 29, 2023

The librarian raised a disapproving eyebrow at me as I sloshed past her desk and sat in my corner again, feeling like a water balloon about to burst.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

Their yolks stay creamy without becoming runny, which means you get all the richness of a soft-boiled egg without worrying about a container full of liquid gold sloshing around in your tote bag.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2026

Maurten uses a substance called a “hydrogel”—a gel long used in medicine to deliver medication—to deliver fast-acting carbs without triggering stomach havoc or sloshing around during the race.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Japanese money, as Bessent said, is sloshing around the world.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

I stumble up the bank, trying to move fast, but the water keeps sloshing out of my shoes.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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