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as in to flow
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops
water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor the cracked bottle dripped wine
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Recent Examples of drip
Shobha Shetty, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
Rather than simply preventing drips, the mom continues transferring a significant portion of the ice cream into the cup — leaving noticeably less on the cone.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Remove the chicken from the bag, allowing the excess marinade to drip back into the bag.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
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Noun
The cooperative used that rebuilt trust to introduce improved seeds, establish organic composting, and develop greenhouse infrastructure with drip irrigation.
—Shobha Shetty, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
Rather than simply preventing drips, the mom continues transferring a significant portion of the ice cream into the cup — leaving noticeably less on the cone.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
In line for the merch booth, sweat drips down our backs.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Remove the chicken from the bag, allowing the excess marinade to drip back into the bag.
—Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drip
Noun
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This method bore fruit, with a close relative of the DNA identified in 2025.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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As the North bore down on Saigon, Thieu begged for American financial support, but Congress was in no mood to pour more millions into the black hole of Southeast Asia.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Kids love the decorating step here — picking out old charms or beads to hang from the wire wrapping feels like a treasure hunt.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Bright red and round, with a hook-like stalk, the peppers hang like beads from each plant.—
Kamala Thiagarajan,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Emily Blunt is fierce and fashionable in a dramatic red pantsuit with a flowing train at the European premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in London on April 22.—
Katie Hill,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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Given the reputations universities have, search queries then flow to the top of Google’s results.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dogs may lick their lips, yawn, stiffen or turn away.—
Cathy M. Rosenthal,
San Antonio Express-News,
19 Mar. 2026
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More than 27,000 racers rose before dawn this morning to yawn, stretch and don their gear to take on the iconic streets of Los Angeles today during the 2026 ASICS Los Angeles Marathon.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Mussels, for instance, create strong underwater adhesives and fibers through dense protein droplets.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
20 Apr. 2026
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Wave action on the water’s surface can break oil into smaller droplets that sink into the ocean depths.—
Asuka Koda,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Tom Steyer has poured more than $100 million into California’s governor’s race — a staggering sum that’s helping vault him into the top tier after months of lagging in the polls.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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To get rid of them, officials advised mixing a third of a cup of ground yellow mustard seeds with one gallon of water and pouring the mixture slowly onto the soil.—
Maria Braganini,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Inspired by both pre-Columbian cultures and modern scientific theories, Jensen made energetic diagrams of shapes, symbols, and numbers in loud complementary colors, using thick globs of paint; the results generate a fascinating friction.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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With just a pea-size glob of scat, biologists can genetically decode which individual whale produced the sample.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The question is the extent to which this will trickle down to the continent.—
Alexis Akwagyiram,
semafor.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Grove and Bunnin collided, the ball trickled away, the runners advanced to second and third, and Lynch scored.—
Tony Gleason,
Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Drip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drip. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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