Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for douching
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The upstream piranhas attacked her, and her blood flowing downstream attracted the rest of the piranhas, leaving the creek clear for the herd to cross.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026 -
Florio said that the key is to keep gas flowing into the furnace.—
John Shumway,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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It wasn't dammed up then, and the water came gushing out icy cold!—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Jan. 2026
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Researchers and even users can alter these personas through technical tweaks, as many ChatGPT users found out earlier this year when the OpenAI service fluctuated between personalities that were either gushing and sycophantic or emotionally distant.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
3 Jan. 2026
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Residents were prohibited from watering their lawns or hosing down their cars; industrial operations, largely exempt from drought restrictions, kept drawing the water they had been promised.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
13 Nov. 2025
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Drone footage shows crews hosing down a smoking pile of materials that caught fire at a northeastern Massachusetts recycling plant.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Ahead, find our list of the 16 best crime films currently streaming on Netflix.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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In addition to streaming on Peacock, the show will air on 120 iHeart stations across the country and on the iHeartRadio app.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
28 Jan. 2026
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With the most recent round of layoffs at Meta, plenty of online commenters have been rushing to declare virtual reality and the metaverse dead.—
Cortney Harding,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Video footage verified by The New York Times shows a member of staff rushing to an entrance to the consulate, where an agent appears to have opened the door.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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This extension of the color-drenching trend that took the design space by storm in recent years is an ideal way to play with fun colors and prints.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2026
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Then, a second winter of drenching storms triggered two more slides, including one that completely buried another section of California’s Highway 1 under 300,000 cubic yards of dirt, rock and debris.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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The northern lights appeared to fill the entire sky, saturating the scene with vivid curtains of color dancing to the whims of Earth's magnetic field.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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But Starbucks is now struggling, and its strategy of saturating urban areas to draw coffee drinkers on their way to work in the morning has backfired amid competition, the rise of remote work and rising costs.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
29 Dec. 2025
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Trump opened the session with a lengthy spiel suggesting that the spigots of Venezuelan oil would soon be open, flooding the market with cheap petroleum for the benefit of American taxpayers, Venezuelan citizens and big oil companies.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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For some, the helicopters flying overhead and protesters flooding the streets this week felt hauntingly familiar.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Douching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/douching. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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