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Lee Ratcliffe, head teacher at Calderstones School in Liverpool, says he felt a "gush of pride" at seeing the teenage friends triumph in the BBC series' finale this week.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

But when two of her Calvin Klein coworkers gush, “You’re going to be the American people’s princess!” my inner narrator countered, “No. Not so much.”

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

The agent took the opportunity to gush about ICE’s new state-of-the-art semi-automatic tasers and brand-new pepper-ball guns.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

He tried to fix it, which caused foam to gush from one barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Unlike their aunt, the children won’t put up with this kind of overdone gush.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

On that last track, recorded a dozen years ago, Mr. Lloyd, playing alto sax, seems like a fountain, distilling fragments of songs and scales into a narrative that spills forth in graceful gushes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Next, it's a serum designed to make your skin glow, "Oh my god it's so glowy," she gushes.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

“I’ve basically modeled my whole look and style after you,” Carpenter gushes when she and Piggy finally meet in the recent special.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

In the Sierra Nevada, the snow that blankets the rugged landscape each winter melts and gushes in meadows, streams and rivers, nourishing alpine ecosystems and filling reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Standing in the light of a partial moon, he watched the water come out in gushes of icy silver.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

The world that Meg created, I find to be so vibrant and intoxicating and delicious,” Bareilles gushed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

For years, Meta had little need to borrow, thanks to a highly profitable advertising business that gushed cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

When the trunk line ruptured early Thursday morning, millions of gallons of water gushed down Holloway Drive, inundating businesses and flooding underground parking garages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

“Americans are falling in love with Vietnam and its dual communist–capitalist system of government and economics,” some guy in Hanoi could have said after I gushed to him about how much fun I was having.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

To our right, the River Styx gushed from the rocks and roared off in a cascade of rapids.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

It was 02:03 am on 26 September 2022 when the first blast severed part of the Nord Stream pipelines, sending vast quantities of gas gushing through the surface of the Baltic Sea.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Within hours of the flooding, Nepal's Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal said an earthquake likely triggered a landslide, in turn blocking a river and sending water gushing downstream.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

His face was wet and gushing with joy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

His gushing about being another Napoleon allows me to note that a couple of years ago I suggested the only way to handle Donald Trump was to exile him to a nice island somewhere.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

And then he was swept away in a gushing tide.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis