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Recent Examples of backwash Below them, harbor seals appeared in the backwash of coves. Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024 The earliest object is an exquisite 1951 painting by the late Lee Mullican, once a UCLA professor, its knife-edge rays of shimmery golden light emerging from a central core to summon the birth of new worlds in the era’s backwash of hydrogen bombs and Holocaust. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023 This backwash, otherwise known as acid reflux, can wreak havoc on the lining of your esophagus and cause that burning sensation in your throat. Lashieka Hunter, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022 The heart’s four valves — two for each side — each sport cartilage leaflets that must be supple enough to open wide with forward flow, then billow closed to stop backwash. Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for backwash
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Noun
  • Unwavering loyalty Schrandt told ABC News that any deportations to Afghanistan are an unacceptable outcome.
    Chris Boccia, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The cumulative effect is fewer community judgments and more private, judicial and legislative control over outcomes.
    Richard Lorren Jolly, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The resultant casualty levels were stunning.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This pace of growth means that every new generation of AI comes with an order-of-magnitude increase in energy, water demand and the resultant CO2 impact.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images Alphabet shares rose 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday as investors viewed the result of Google’s antitrust case as broadly favorable to the tech giant.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • No guarantees are made with regards to results or financial gain.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The decisions ultimately have dire consequences for both the erstwhile pals and everyone else living on Inisherin.
    Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But the then-21-year-old soon felt the consequences of his overnight fame.
    Safiyah Riddle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Each cabin also comes complete with high-end amenities like Dyptique Paris bath products, Bose Bluetooth speakers, and Nespresso coffee makers.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Other items listed in the top 20 product groups responsible for injuries included exercise equipment, cans, basketballs, ladders, desks, rugs and bathtubs.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reddit/u/My_Heirloom_Tomatoes Not much happened in the immediate aftermath of Joanne penning the message.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Though some of his memories from that time are a blur, other details stick out in his mind, like the water — and the darkness that surrounded them in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Backwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backwash. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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