washout

Example Sentences

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Following a washout period, they consumed a low-carotenoid tomato juice for another four weeks.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Sri Lanka were left on the brink after being blasted out for 95 against England to lose by 51 runs a day after New Zealand and Pakistan took a point each from a washout.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Both bitcoin and ether have stabilized since Saturday’s sudden washout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The stock market is likely “closer to the bottom,” after Thursday’s washout, and investors should buy the dip, says Wall Street’s prescient and biggest bull, Tom Lee.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025

“Creek must of swole up after the last rain. Thet washout th’owed my car clean out a-control.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns