foam
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The EA is also investigating another incident nearby at Brislington Brook, where dead fish and eels, foam on the water and "an intense chemical smell" were reported by volunteers.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The monument will be installed in a park in Callao, a nearby port city, after being coated with polyurethane foam and fiberglass, and finished with a marble dust.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
At the surface, the foam develops an extremely rough texture that strongly repels water, much like the surface of a lotus leaf.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Cat kicked a patch of foam and watched it flutter to the sand.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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The three movements include “an invocation to hands that weave”; “a meeting of foams, needles, songs, threats and pulsations”; and what Negrón calls “an archipelago of resonances and possibilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
The company said the Department of Defence kept using the PFAS-containing firefighting foams for two decades after it stopped selling the product in Australia.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The team has acknowledged that turning experimental materials into real electrolyzer products, including meshes and foams, still involves difficult engineering work.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026
In practice, even foams just a few tens of centimeters high can leak easily.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2026
His mouth foams; he shakes her with all his own shock and indignation.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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The straw made from foamed CDA was a prototype to see if increasing the surface area would accelerate break down.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Pennsylvania officials will use 2,000 tons of lightweight foamed glass nuggets to fill in the section of a U.S.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
So far it has built 1,000km of foamed bitumen road surfaces and is "continuing to develop foamed bitumen techniques", according to its transport department.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
It foamed and raged and swept citizens along in its wake, but Nora alone was strong enough to outjump it.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
Milo’s office was a barbershop, and his deputy mayor was a pudgy barber from whose obsequious lips cordial greetings foamed as effusively as the lather he began whipping up in Milo’s shaving cup.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Built-in sinks allow shoppers to test face washes that come in creamy, gooey and foaming textures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
She calmly described how her mum had been foaming at the mouth and shaking, and clearly gave their address when asked, LAS said.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
They frequently contain colors, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, thickeners, foaming agents and emulsifiers, and typically cannot be produced in the home.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Because I know from experience that some of you are frothing, foaming and itching to reach out and tell me that illegal means illegal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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