effervesce
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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
He was successful at the bar, and had moved to Naples to practise before the appellate tribunals there, when the events that led to the uprisings of '48 began to effervesce.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
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
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
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
It popped up at the most inconvenient times, effervesced in all my rhymes.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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Ms. Diefenbach, who was already equipped with a pilot’s license, was sent to the effervescing volcano with a handful of keen colleagues and a small fleet of flying robots.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
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
The presence of fever will suggest the use of the neutral mixture, effervescing draught, or spirit of Mindererus, combined, if there is decided tendency to evening exacerbations, with sulphate of quinia in full doses.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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