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[ooz] / uz /




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The clubhouse had a paint-chipped exterior and was even worse inside, where unused kitchen appliances dripped ooze.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

One close to the seafront, where the near-200-year-old golf club gives way to a spectacular view across the Firth of Forth to the Bass Rock, has its keypad caked in a sticky black ooze.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2026

But what you actually want — what your body, your cravings, your Fourth of July grill night wants — is ooze.

From Salon Jul. 6, 2025

This meant, however, that only four monks guarded the tomb of St. Nicholas, down in the city, carrying on their ancient duties, filling decorative glass vials with the ooze that drizzled from his corpse.

From Slate Dec. 15, 2024

Poking a hole in the yolk, he watched the yellow goo ooze across his plate.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Nestled in the wooded hills of Austria's Styria region, the town of Leoben oozes tradition with its pastel-coloured buildings and quaint central square boasting a 13th-century church.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

While he was no kingpin, one source said, Jando oozes charisma.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

This thing oozes with what every sporting event craves: real stakes, total athlete buy-in, and absurd, camera-rattling atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

“Slop oozes into everything. The original sense of the word, in the 1700s, was ‘soft mud.’

From Salon Jan. 13, 2026

In the water, the warm mud oozes itself between my toes and after a few steps, my feet and toes begin to tingle and itch again.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

A 20-year-old with ear piercings and ripped skinny jeans, Johnson oozed charisma; his profile on the app skyrocketed.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

I watched in awe as melted cheese oozed out from inside, forming a delicious crust along the edges of my cooked omelette.

From Salon Mar. 21, 2026

Infiniti oozed glamour in a lilac sleeveless Louis Vuitton dress with a fitted bodice and a cascade of ruffles tumbling from her hip to the floor, creating a long train.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

A notoriously private and mysterious man, Robbins spent his life enchanting readers with clever wordplay and bizarre, highly whimsical stories that oozed with philosophical musings and quips.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2025

He stuffed a Latin-English dictionary into his saddlebag while the Frank Sinatra music oozed from his boom box.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

At the buffet for the central command post in Lege-Cap-Ferret, it takes two full-size catering trays to contain the range of artisanal cheeses crumbling or oozing onto the warm metal for the firefighters' pleasure.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

It's the Azteca - it has football history oozing out of every crevice.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

This mammoth died nearby, but his carcass slumped into an ancient stream bed and was covered by sediment and eventually topped by the pits’ oozing asphalt, encasing and preserving his bones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

From the poignant title track to the oozing, satirical groove of “Have a Cigar,” the album holds its rightful place as one of the decade’s enduring masterworks.

From Salon Dec. 12, 2025

The tiny creatures packed together so tightly that they formed a glowing slime, which began oozing into the engines.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown




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