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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

When they smile, The hands of old tins Touch their hearts And the viejos raise Their half-finished beers To the slosh of salud.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

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

During El Niño, trade winds are weaker, and warm water in the Pacific sloshes toward the western coasts of North America and South America.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

The “open” circulatory system of insects doesn’t have vessels like capillaries to direct the hemolymph; instead, the hemolymph sloshes through the body cavity and helps to distribute dissolved nutrients.

From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019

He ties his horse to a sapling and sloshes back in driving rain to the place where the woman fell.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

People on a bus lifted up their feet as water sloshed around the vehicle:

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2023

He stared as they swam and dove and sloshed around with one another.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

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

Then money came sloshing right back into the fund, shrinking SpaceX’s share of the portfolio to 28.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Japanese money, as Bessent said, is sloshing around the world.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

“Of course not!” she said again, and headed back across the planks to firm ground while I went up to meet her, my pail of mussels sloshing as I went.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk