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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
Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 21 Jan. 2026
If the heat goes out, call a plumber, but leave the faucet on a slow drip, which will help keep the pipe from freezing.
—Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Matt Randolph, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Properly insulate pipes, or leave faucets to drip Extremely low temperatures can cause pipes to freeze and burst, leading to costly and widespread damage.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Cache pots, saucers, and drip trays should be emptied after watering so your plants don't absorb the excess.
—Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 21 Jan. 2026
If the heat goes out, call a plumber, but leave the faucet on a slow drip, which will help keep the pipe from freezing.
—Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
Know how to shut off water valves, let faucets drip to prevent freezing.
—Matt Randolph, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Properly insulate pipes, or leave faucets to drip Extremely low temperatures can cause pipes to freeze and burst, leading to costly and widespread damage.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drip
Noun
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This civic attitude kicked into high gear as ICE bore down on the state.—
Eric Roper,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
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These changes allowed the team to push performance higher without reducing the bore size, a key requirement for user experiments.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Slim or softly embellished styles like beads or lace can define the waist without competing with the dress or stealing focus from the moment.—
Pooja Shah,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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After a top coat, Sun added asymmetrical groupings of rhinestones, jewels, sequins, and caviar beads for a truly otherworldly outcome.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
28 Jan. 2026
Verb
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That flow to a degree has come at a cost to second-year Kel’el Ware, who has seen only limited minutes in his two games back after missing four with a hamstring strain.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Namtso Blue collection, named after Tibet’s sacred Namtso Lake, included a range of lightweight and breathable jackets in a gradient color palette and a flowing knot emblem inspired by Tibetan nomadic culture.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One such winner is Steve Kovacs, who took first place in the Blackwater category, as well as the coveted best-in-show prize, for his whimsical image of a monkfish in Japan appearing to yawn.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The oohs and aahs over a 100-mph pitch have been replaced by yawns.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This gold and silver chrome combo works on bold 3D designs of stars, hearts, and water droplets.—
Odeya Pinkus,
InStyle,
25 Jan. 2026
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For a snowflake to form, a freezing water droplet attaches itself to one of those floating dust, soot, or pollen particles.—
Laura Kiniry,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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American oil companies were reluctant to pour money into Venezuela given the country’s crumbling infrastructure, its history of political instability, and the cost of refining its low-quality reserves.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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And videos started pouring in showing just how messy and hostile the surge was.—
Eric Roper,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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One pair of slippers in particular had bright red globs of liquid on the sole, along with what Gould thought at the time could be human hair.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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It’s trickled down to the regular professional player, to guys ranked 40 or 50 in the world.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The trend eventually trickled into the ’90s, with everyone from Beyoncé Knowles-Carter to Christina Aguilera donning versions similar to Porte’s.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Drip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drip. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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