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douched

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past tense of douche

as in flowed

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Star67, a private-dining concept, kept the crowd snacking on birthday cake bites and ice cream sundaes as the drinks flowed.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Material from both sides of this line flowed together to assemble the parent objects of Bennu, Ryugu and CI chondrites, with ice acting like glue to bond the fine dust particles together.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026

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Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Mundorf’s description of a four-rack magnetic system — two large, two small, plus utensil caddy and paper towel holder — is a preview of how saturated that vertical panel is about to get.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

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He too is wounded, lying on his side, his white shirt soaked with blood around his stomach.

— Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Instead of cutting wood into layers or using toxic chemicals and heat, the researchers soaked solid wood in a mixture of Cyrene and water.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2026

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Tiny and blond with rounded, cherubic features, Pugh’s Cathy lands at their doorstep one night like an angel that crashed to the earth, her skull cracked and her dress drenched in blood.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2026
Formerly a hurricane, the storm drenched parts of Hawaii’s Big Island over the weekend.

— Mead Gruver, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of drenched

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Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026
Clearly he hasn’t been flooded with offers since that accolade, so his agent has set him up with Lady Isabella, who claims to have a Netflix commission for a bio-doc about her life.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of flooded

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In the Chiefs’ 30-27 win over the Raiders, Walker rushed for 177 yards on 22 carries with two touchdowns and a pulsating 76-yard dash.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
Last April, residents of the Vendome Place Condominium in Miami Beach were inside the elevator with the doors closed when floodwaters rushed in, NBC6 reported.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

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