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effervesce

[ef-er-ves] / ˌɛf ərˈvɛs /
VERB
fizz
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DiDonato’s vibrato, which oscillates so quickly it seems to effervesce, is built for highly ornamented Baroque melodies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022

Wodehouse, whose accounts of upper-class twits effervesce with smile-inducing similes: “She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021

But watching Alexandra Socha effervesce her way through the madcap “Look What Happened to Mabel” number in the Encores! revue “Hey, Look Me Over!” put me firmly in the when’s-it-gonna-happen camp.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2018

We’re excited for two more, by the end of which Slate will likely be published on thin wafers that effervesce into provocative arguments on your tongue.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2016

Meantime, all the acid matter in her husband began to effervesce in its turn.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

The waters effervesced like the 1920s themselves, but the solemn weight of the Depression evidently closed its doors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Sentiments like that had effervesced online for weeks.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016

Charles Simonyi was the chief architect of Microsoft. $3,000,000,000,000 Wiser By Larry Keeley After $3 trillion effervesced away on the Nasdaq, it is good to ask what we now know.

From Forbes ● May 27, 2011

Some bemoaned the “pompous VCs,” “sycophantic politicians,” the Silicon Valley tourists, the startups that attracted eyeballs and wads of cash sans business models and, well, the $3 trillion that effervesced on the Nasdaq.

From Forbes ● May 27, 2011

It popped up at the most inconvenient times, effervesced in all my rhymes.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2018

Solid calcite reacts with hydrochloric acid by effervescing or fizzing.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

But I suppose that now, were he with us, he might use the expression to refer to the little bubbles that are effervescing everywhere.

From Forbes ● Sep. 8, 2014

Or should we channel its effervescing language ability in other directions?

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2012

Hurriedly I poured the contents of one tumbler into the other and the effervescing saline ran all over the poor man and bed, while he was making desperate efforts to drink a little.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Elizabeth Schoffen




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