plural slurries
: a watery mixture of insoluble matter (such as mud, lime, or plaster of paris)
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The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
The leftover slurry of water, sediment and crushed nodules is then dumped back into the middle of the water column, creating plumes.
—Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
What was once an app full of human beings making content in conversation with each other has become a dizzying world where irony and sincerity, memes and spam, blur together into a slurry of bizarre content no one is quite sure what to do with.
—Ryan Broderick, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
The potters who worked under Wilson’s direction mostly used alkaline glaze, one of the oldest methods in ceramics, to create a glassy exterior from a slurry of wood ash, sand and clay.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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Noun
For me, that moment came from my mother, Jean, who uses grated potato in place of the traditional slurry of powdered starch and water to thicken the sauce without gloopiness.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
The leftover slurry of water, sediment and crushed nodules is then dumped back into the middle of the water column, creating plumes.
—Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
What was once an app full of human beings making content in conversation with each other has become a dizzying world where irony and sincerity, memes and spam, blur together into a slurry of bizarre content no one is quite sure what to do with.
—Ryan Broderick, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
The potters who worked under Wilson’s direction mostly used alkaline glaze, one of the oldest methods in ceramics, to create a glassy exterior from a slurry of wood ash, sand and clay.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
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“Slurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slurry. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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