spray
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KAMPALA, Uganda—An Ebola response team ran into an unexpected obstacle when they arrived to spray a roadside market with disinfectant a couple of weeks ago: the admin for a local WhatsApp group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Contractors at the massive Lineage warehouse on Thursday had already placed fans and misters around the burned remains of the building, which had its walls torn down so firefighters could spray water into the structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Durnell -- who relied on Monsanto marketing that Roundup was safe to spray on clothing -- blamed the product for his blood cancer diagnosis.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Uniformed marksmen spray the mob with cold water.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Killer whales cruised the open leads, blowing spouts of icy spray.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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She sprays “XO Kylie” across the billboard, gets back in her car, and leaves.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Since insulin resistance in the brain is a problem, researchers have tested insulin sprays given through the nose.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
A man in a hoodie and mask, who authorities said was Bradbury, walks into a kitchen with an aerosol can, allegedly a poison for bugs, and sprays everything in sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Consumers can actually expect up to 10% more sprays, Axe said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Hot tea sprays everywhere, and a few stinging drops land on my ankles.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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In forward mode, water sprayed outward as it would from an ordinary lawn sprinkler.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
And in 2026, I was sprayed with beer, hit it in the head by a flying paper sombrero, and watched El Tri win its opening game with a 2-0 victory over South Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Earlier in the week, Kim, who had led a fact-finding tour inside the for-profit prison, had himself been pepper sprayed when he attempted to de-escalate tensions between the protestors and the federal immigration officers.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
Aerial footage filmed by local TV stations on Friday showed jets of water being sprayed at the tank, which has a capacity of 34,000 gallons.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Scott got on his knees and sprayed cleaning fluid in the area underneath the dishwasher, where dirt collected.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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Barcelona residents took to spraying tourists with water guns as Airbnb rentals exacerbated a housing shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Every summer, lawns fill with colorful "silly sprinklers," whose looping and twisting tubes send water spraying in unusual patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The system involved piping water from higher up in the mountains during the winter and spraying it into the air, where it would freeze, and over time form large towers of ice, called ice stupas.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
He noted that crews had stopped spraying water onto the tank and were in the process of assessing whether the vessel’s temperature had stabilized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
My tray is a mess from the food spraying out.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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