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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

This cycle occurs when changes in tropical wind patterns — or trade winds — allow a massive reservoir of sun-baked seawater to slosh east across the Pacific and up against the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 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 purpose was not to have fun but to do some aerobatics and cause the fluid in my inner ears to slosh around.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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

Coffee sloshes from her cup, occasionally threatening her “Today” show uniform.

From New York Times Dec. 21, 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

I gasp and push the jug away so quickly liquid sloshes from its neck.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

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

From BBC Mar. 29, 2025

Water sloshed in a swimming pool, another person said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2024

He jimmied the bike so the plastic tank sloshed.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

I let myself into the room and stepped into the bed, one foot at a time, the warm water inside the plastic sheet sloshing around and making me feel a bit wobbly.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Akira suddenly heard the sound of sloshing water and froze.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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