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swoosh

[swoosh] / swʊʃ /




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The swoosh may outperform Wall Street’s expectations when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on June 30.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Or, simply hang up a hammock and sway to the sound of the stream, songbirds and the gentle swoosh of the wind through the trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Some in the fashion community believe Woods can survive without sporting Nike’s popular swoosh on chest.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

It features a rose-colored, thorn-trimmed swoosh on the right sneaker, and a black swoosh with jagged stitching on the left.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

I heard a swoosh to my right and realized that Ema was running away.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Bobby Hundreds: I was wearing Air Force 1s, they had custom Louis Vuitton swooshes on them, and he’s just like, “I like your Air Force 1s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

The bulk of these wax-coated pictures are crisp and detailed, but they’re partly tinted in electric shades of red and pink and punctuated by swipes and swooshes of random pixels.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

Silhouettes were truncated or unfurled at the top and bottom in swooshes of silk that resembled an opening flower.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

Mr. Debargue brings subtle swooshes of flamenco flair to some of the minor-key sonatas, like K. 115, in C Minor.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2019

French troops marched down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées alongside tanks and armored vehicles as fighter jets swooshed over the Arc de Triomphe.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025

When she swooshed out the doors of the White House after one particularly pointed encounter with Trump, her sunglasses and burnt-orange winter coat were quickly the stuff of social media memes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

He had similar childhood epiphanies whenever cars swooshed by on the neighboring highway, or when his father flicked on his electric razor.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2019

Most had swooshed out past New Orleans and around English Turn.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

Surprise swooshed up from the class like steam from a released radiator cap.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

"I was following a path along the valley when I suddenly felt something hit the back of my head accompanied by a swooshing sound," Nigel Crompton said.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025

Spike Lee showed that by using it to set the tone in “He Got Game,” notably in the gleaming introduction: We see balls swooshing through hoops all over America, from cornfields to city streets.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

He just managed to escape the house before the evergreen tree came swooshing down onto the stairs along the outside of his home, damaging them.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

Some players have already suggested that the radio reporter stage a swooshing comeback in a compelling rematch that would …

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

Without the constant swooshing of the stasis gel being replenished, you could hear a nanochip drop.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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