slosh
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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
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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
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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
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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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