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The design of this travel mug helps prevent spillage.
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The fridge then lowers the dispenser nozzle to fit your glass size (so there’s no spillage) and fills it up for you.
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Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Embrace the spillage of slop into the physical world.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
The spillage increased the acidity of a local river to a level strong enough to dissolve human bones, in what may be one of the mining industry’s worst catastrophes globally.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Open spillage bottle of opioid pain killing tablets.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
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Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Embrace the spillage of slop into the physical world.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
The spillage increased the acidity of a local river to a level strong enough to dissolve human bones, in what may be one of the mining industry’s worst catastrophes globally.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Open spillage bottle of opioid pain killing tablets.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spillage
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“Spillage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spillage. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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spillage
noun
spill·age
ˈspil-ij 
1
: the act or process of spilling
2
: the quantity that spills
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