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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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As billions of dollars slosh through Division 1 programs, parents are pouring money into their children’s athletic careers with an intensity unimaginable a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Even worse, because these chemicals don’t decompose, they simply slosh around, moving from our stuff to our bodies to the soil and the water—and back again.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2024

The new images reveal how heat can move like a wave, and "slosh" back and forth, even as a material's physical matter may move in an entirely different way.

From Science Daily Feb. 8, 2024

A slosh of olive oil and couple deft flips of the pan, and it’s ready.

From Seattle Times Oct. 16, 2023

We dug through the snow and slosh for the sun to reach our little potato patch.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

Venturing into space offers “the illusion of expansion” into a limitless cosmos, whereas our ocean sloshes across a planet we feel we've already conquered.

From Scientific American Jun. 20, 2023

Nonacidic reflux, or contents in your gut that have been neutralized, frequently sloshes around and hits your esophagus, too.

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2023

The water sloshes from one tank to another, in the direction opposite the one in which the wind is moving the building.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2020

She sloshes the perimeter of her tent with water taken from a hose bib on a building just up the street.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2019

He ties his horse to a sapling and sloshes back in driving rain to the place where the woman fell.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate-change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

In Bangkok, thousands experienced the quake's effects as buildings swayed and water sloshed out of swimming pools.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2025

It followed the same path as the others, but instead of crashing against the rocks, it sloshed against the remains of the first four crates.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

Roll or shake the tire, and you are likely to succeed only in sloshing out some of the water.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

A sizable amount of that cash is going to overseas suppliers of chips and memory, but large sums are also sloshing around the U.S. economy as stimulus.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

However, I can’t say that the steep cost of a Fire Island weekend hasn’t been one of the primary factors keeping me from boarding the ferry and sloshing around the Long Island Sound.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2026

An ocean of capital is sloshing into startups seeking to make AI computing more efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Once she had finished drinking, she began sloshing her trunk about, and splashing me with icy water, which I did not appreciate at all.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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