- present tense form of rush (3rd person singular).
rushes
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Appeared in the April 30, 2026, print edition as 'Crypto Rushes to Bail Out Lender'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Rushes can tell lies but you get a feeling quite early on.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022
Rushes and sugar cane wave in breezes cooled by the pools, which are ringed by tamarisk trees and other native plants.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2013
Rushes of air would create firestorms with “strong winds of up to hurricane force,” far more intense than the deadly firestorms created in German and Japanese cities during World War II.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2013
Rushes the season, sometimes, arrives before the last of the snow melts.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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