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swoosh

[swoosh] / swʊʃ /




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The swoosh may outperform Wall Street’s expectations when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on June 30.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Ted Walsh, former assistant equipment manager for the San Francisco 49ers, got so good at inking the Nike swoosh that he could draw it in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024

Atop his head was a black hat with a white Nike swoosh.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

He was also wearing grey and blue trainers "with a fluorescent swoosh," according to police.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023

Because I could hear a swoosh in the air.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Paralympic logo of three swooshes, known as the Agitos, is stamped on the medals for the Aug. 28-Sept.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Bobby Hundreds: I was wearing Air Force 1s, they had custom Louis Vuitton swooshes on them, and he’s just like, “I like your Air Force 1s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

The bulk of these wax-coated pictures are crisp and detailed, but they’re partly tinted in electric shades of red and pink and punctuated by swipes and swooshes of random pixels.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

Mr. Debargue brings subtle swooshes of flamenco flair to some of the minor-key sonatas, like K. 115, in C Minor.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2019

French troops marched down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées alongside tanks and armored vehicles as fighter jets swooshed over the Arc de Triomphe.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025

When she swooshed out the doors of the White House after one particularly pointed encounter with Trump, her sunglasses and burnt-orange winter coat were quickly the stuff of social media memes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

He grew a mustache that swooshed up at the ends.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2022

“Public spaces should have public art happenings,” Pinque said as Bluebee Troll swooshed its cratered face against the glass pane.

From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019

He had gone to the window and stood looking out at the waves of rain that swooshed against the pane.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

"I was following a path along the valley when I suddenly felt something hit the back of my head accompanied by a swooshing sound," Nigel Crompton said.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025

Vandendriessche is up front demonstrating, as upbeat electronic music commingles with waves of swooshing traffic noise in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

But then the sweepers start to trickle in, swooshing across in balletic punk pageantry.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

I also found out that it lets me turn my cursor into a lightsaber that plays the swooshing sounds as I move my mouse around until I toggle the feature again by typing lightsaber.

From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022

I watched him glide off with swooshing steps to the other side of the room to bother some other kids.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore




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