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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
VERB
splash
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El Niño forms when winds blowing over the Pacific, from the Americas toward Asia, die down, allowing warm tropic water pushed up against Asia to slosh toward the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

The sides of the gully drew closer and closer together until the three men were forced to slosh through the glacial water, sometimes up to their knees.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Scientists believe hydrothermal water vents blast the core’s heat upward, thawing an expansive ocean that sloshes roughly 15 miles below the moon’s icy crust — far deeper than humans have ever dug on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

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 way water splashes, sloshes, sprays and saturates — in the parlance of the industry — had to be “solved.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

For instance, what happens when water violently sloshes against the side of a pool or when crude oil hits the inside of a pipeline?

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2022

She comes out with a bucket and sloshes cold water all over us.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

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

Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

The team created a model that showed how, instead of dissipating, it sloshed back and forth for nine days.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

So Dallas and Florida had run down the hill and sloshed through the creek, and then they ran up the opposite hill, and on top of it they whooped and hollered.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

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

Instead of sloshing cream into a hot skillet and hoping for the best, we are going to build a sauce with posture.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026

Stillo, however, says the increase in core prices — which strips out food and energy — will likely be limited because of excess capacity sloshing around in the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The water pitcher, after sloshing its contents across my front, caught me in the jaw.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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