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splashy

[splash-ee] / ˈsplæʃ i /


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About a week after its splashy debut in 2023, shares of British chip designer Arm Holdings fell below their $51 IPO price.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

No exclusive television interview or splashy magazine profile has ever matched the raw personhood of her actual music.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

Maybe the answer to slumping sales and customer fatigue isn’t splashy, headline-grabbing hires or empty collabs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

For decades, fame seemed to be the only guarantee for a quick, splashy, and profitable home sale.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

They reach both shores, but within a minute the surface is glass again, the sneaker’s splashy entrance forgotten, and I am minus a shoe.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

While the home served as Gomez’s primary residence for several years, she and her husband have since moved on to an even splashier dwelling.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

The unwritten rules: the bigger, the louder, the splashier, the starrier, the better.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

But the mere possibility will make it one of the more intriguing early subplots of the winter, representing one potentially splashier option for the club to consider in pursuit of 2026 roster upgrades.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2025

The southern residents have an open saddle patch, with more black showing, a rounder-tipped dorsal and are usually seen in bigger, noisier, splashier groups with a lot of socializing at the surface.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2023

McCombs can’t resist hopping through an occasional arpeggio, and Rumback’s drumming grows splashier and more insistent along the way, but the track is MacKay’s showcase.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 2023

Although the PC chip entry was the splashiest announcement at Computex for Nvidia, it is an unproven market.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Brunson’s wasn’t even the splashiest purchase in New York that year: A few months before the Knicks spent $104 million on him, Christie’s sold a Warhol at an auction for almost $200 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

And while acquiring a Big Five publisher marks private equity’s splashiest foray yet into publishing, KKR’s deal is far from that industry’s first in publishing.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2023

The 1930 film was the splashiest and probably the best World War I movie of its time, but it wasn’t the first.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2023

Sure enough, Seattle swept the best-of-three wild-card series in Toronto — after which Hernandez was traded to the Mariners in November in the M’s splashiest offseason move.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2023




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