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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

The team strode into the arena wearing black shirts with her signature bun peeking out from a Nike swoosh.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 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

In Minnesota, it was the swoosh of skates on the ice.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

But the ubiquitous sparkle of sequins and in plays in shape — slits in gowns, asymmetrical coats and swooshes of diagonal fabric on skirts — gave the collection motion.

From Seattle Times Mar. 7, 2023

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

Some sliced the swooshes right out of their socks.

From Washington Post Sep. 4, 2018

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

“Public spaces should have public art happenings,” Pinque said as Bluebee Troll swooshed its cratered face against the glass pane.

From Washington Post May 15, 2019

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

From The New Yorker Mar. 25, 2019

The setting sun played hide-and-seek with some purple clouds stretched out along the Jersey City skyline, and a warm summer breeze swooshed in through the open Cadillac windows and made a mess of her hair.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

"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

The skaters drop into the pool one after another — swirling and swooshing around, “carving” and “grinding,” before popping back up — in such tight succession it feels choreographed.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 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

We start walking to Westwood, and all I hear is cars swooshing by.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée




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