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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloating
Verb
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Theories range from the Edmund Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025 -
Meanwhile, the safety net designed to financially protect homeowners from flooding sits frozen amid the government shutdown.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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This approach is meant to reduce crowding and prevent day-of travel surprises.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Nov. 2025
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That approach is meant to reduce crowding and prevent day-of-travel surprises.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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While many areas in the Northeast may primarily receive drenching rain, elevation-dependent snow will be possible in locations such as the Adirondacks and the Green and White Mountains of New England.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Bloating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloating. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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