deliquescence
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The movement is peak McGregor: Bodies curving and winding, morphing between defined shapes and liquid deliquescence; legs extending with gasp-inducing flexibility.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
If this is related to deliquescence from the atmosphere, we should see a difference in brightness and darkness, with time of day.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2017
The process, known as deliquescence, is seen in the Atacama desert, where the resulting damp patches are the only known place for microbes to live.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2015
It was an industry in a state of deliquescence, and Varda saw rightly that, if Hollywood were to become solid again, it would do so in open acknowledgment of and confrontation with its own past.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2015
At length, we arrived at the spot, but in a state of deliquescence and exhaustion not to be described.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by William Chambers
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