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noun

plural of belch

as in eructations

an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth with a loud belch he concluded his pig-out and rose at last from the table

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verb

present tense third-person singular of belch

as in erupts

to violently throw out or off (something from within) the volcano belched lava and ash for days

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Noun

These types of foods can lead to bad-smelling belches, nausea, abdominal pain, and reflux. — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2026 Five belches on the U-T five-belch meter. — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025

Verb

Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter. — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025 Her old garbage disposal is still in place and frequently belches waste back into the sink. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025

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Verb

Gold is a safe-haven asset that investors gravitate toward when economic and political turmoil erupts, sending waves through the markets.

— Liz Knueven, CNBC, 15 July 2026
In one segment, Daeron quietly whispers for a young cupbearer to exit the room before violence erupts from the lord.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

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This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026

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Lowry, in the meantime, would embark on a two-decade career in a league that spits out frauds on the regular.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
This week, Tyla gets in her feelings, Tierra Whack spits bars on a spritely beat, and Kelela slows it down on a lover’s lament that dates back to her debut album.

— Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2026

Definition of spits

Verb

Sneezing forcefully expels mucus and airborne debris; reflexive blinking may help shield the eyes from contaminants moving upward across the face.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
This is the palette of the machine-made, that which is inhuman, and Duchamp would drive the point home in Coffee Mill (1911), a tiny painting of a grinder that expels a cascade of brown beans.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026

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Verb

Recent ideas suggest that little red dots could be black holes cocooned in thick gas, possibly representing a completely new type of object called a black hole star, in which the tight shroud of gas emits light like a stellar atmosphere.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
Between May through August every year, the US emits an average of around 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from AC every month, roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of the Netherlands.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026

Definition of emits

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And, Anthropic’s CEO pours $1 million into a PAC pushing AI regulation.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Down the rock at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, the dining room pours rosé from Bandol and from Bellet, a Niçoise appellation so small that barely anyone outside the region can name it.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

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