spill
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We just go for a long walk and spill the tea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the recent past, when Treasury yields have traded at or around these levels, the pressure has started to spill over into other markets, often weighing on stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Plenty of workplaces could use more empathy, but we don’t have to spill everything—and often shouldn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Just as they did in Beethoven's time, euphoric revellers still spill out onto the paths of the otherwise sleepy outskirts in the vine-lined Viennese hillsides after a few carafes of white- or red-wine spritzers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Before I can stop them, tears spill out of my eyes, wetting my pillowcase.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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"Even relatively small oil spills can persist in marine sediments for years, compromising the ecological resilience of this protected marine ecosystem."
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
On that last track, recorded a dozen years ago, Mr. Lloyd, playing alto sax, seems like a fountain, distilling fragments of songs and scales into a narrative that spills forth in graceful gushes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which carries Kazakhstan's Caspian oil to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, said its terminal had been hit, but there were no injuries or oil spills.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The issue for Sunday's game, said Joel Dreessen, an air quality forecaster for the state of Maryland, is whether more smoke spills south after weekend storm systems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
She lets me sit in the front of the truck, and the broken leather scratches my thighs, and the seat stuffing spills out and tickles my skin.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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I’ve been heartened by the throngs of people gathered in multiplexes, even if it means the floors are extra sticky from spilled soda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The “Oh Yeah” and “Bad Habit” singer also allegedly spilled the beans on “Stranger Things” alumna Sadie Sink‘s “Spider-Man” character, which Marvel has kept tightly under wraps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Callais, dismantling the work that thousands of activists had spilled blood, sweat, and tears over.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
In a slowly emptying village in northern Kazakhstan, wild grass engulfed the entrances of abandoned apartment blocks, as children's songs spilled into the street from the only building still occupied.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The meager light from the arena spilled around them, barely lighting the room enough to make out shapes.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Sewage is spilt when it is raining to prevent the system becoming overwhelmed and backing up into people's homes.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
My motto in investing has always been cry over spilt milk, for analyzing errors is how you learn almost everything.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
An overturned lorry forced the closure of the M6 motorway when it spilt diesel across the road in Staffordshire.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
In another clip, we see a man scrabbling in the roadway to gather up spilt flour.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
Silent, the old nurse went to fetch more water, her basin being all spilt.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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That was from the water spilling over a dirt road, not from internal erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hammond said he found about 86% of the raw sewage spilling hours took place when there had not been heavy rain, meaning those discharges could be potentially illegal.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But by the time the bicentennial rolled around, my life had played out against the backdrop of civil unrest and the Vietnam War, both spilling from our black-and-white television almost nightly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
And because those things are used for more than just AI, those price increases are spilling over into the broader economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I dragged one of the crates over and upturned it on its side, spilling out mounds of sodden wood shavings.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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