swoosh
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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
Ted Walsh, former assistant equipment manager for the San Francisco 49ers, got so good at inking the Nike swoosh that he could draw it in the dark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
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
He had a swoosh of black hair and a thin, pale face.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
She wore no-nonsense sneakers with pink swooshes and carried two FedEx boxes.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
The jagged sweeps, splotches and upward swooshes are actually sculpted paper protruding from the prints’ surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2017
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
“I want to be a lifestyle brand,” she declared two weeks before the Nordstrom appearance, pink-manicured fingertips firmly on the wheel of her white Mercedes as it swooshed down the U.S.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2015
Surprise swooshed up from the class like steam from a released radiator cap.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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
Mr Gilliver moves towards the camera, swooshing his light sabre before disappearing down the trap door.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
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
If you aren't aiming the light, you are swooshing the water down into the drains.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
