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slosh

[slosh] / slɒʃ /
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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 slight rocking of the raft, the slosh of little waves slapping the boards beneath, and the sun diying my back makes me yawn.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

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

She sloshes the perimeter of her tent with water taken from a hose bib on a building just up the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2019

Every wave sloshes over the sagging sides, bringing more water.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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

Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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

The thought of Rowan made her hand tremble as she poured, and she sloshed some water on the table.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

They let the wave fall harmlessly, the displaced sea sloshing against the side of the Ferolind.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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