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containing water or similar to water
an aqueous solution
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Recent Examples of aqueous
At the opposite age-and-experience end of the Milan Games is the 30-year-old Shiffrin, an indisputable great with a record 108 Alpine-skiing World Cup victories and an aqueous style that makes snow seem like velvet.
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Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
Unlike many organic molecules that hate water, Nguyen’s system is compatible with aqueous environments.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 16 Feb. 2026
Swift ends in the bathroom where Swift lies partly submerged in the tub — another ode to Ophelia, but also to the album's aqueous cover.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
Unlike many organic molecules that hate water, Nguyen’s system is compatible with aqueous environments.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 16 Feb. 2026
Swift ends in the bathroom where Swift lies partly submerged in the tub — another ode to Ophelia, but also to the album's aqueous cover.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aqueous
Adjective
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Hotel accommodations were so saturated that travelers without lodging were seen sleeping in a park in the small western Cuban town of Viñales that draws thousands of tourists and rock climbers to its scenic limestone cliffs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Paired here with a pale-green Aventurine dial, the effect immediately recalls the Stella dials of the 1970s, but the overall effect is less saturated.—
Allen Farmelo,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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It’s called ‘Spiral’ and it’s set in 1980s Ireland and dripping in folklore, repression and the strangeness of the Irish countryside.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
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This leak set comes with three detectors, which feature two groups of backwater detector sensor probes and one group of front probes for pipe dripping.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Gnats are attracted to succulents that are planted in soil that is too wet and doesn’t have proper drainage.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
20 Apr. 2026
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More than 80 native plant species will be available, including woodland flowering plants and ferns; dry, medium, and wet prairie flowering plants; as well as grasses, shrubs, trees, native grasses, woodlands and ferns.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Keep yourself hydrated—staff are always on hand with flasks of muña tea—and spend some time studying the map with your guide and assessing which trails are best for your ability.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Reshuffling the order in which minerals emerged would create new opportunities for water’s constituent oxygen and hydrogen to combine, more readily forming hydrated minerals that, unlike ice, can endure close proximity to the blazing sun.—
Javier Barbuzano,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Aqueous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aqueous. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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