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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
Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
This, in turn, grows black sooty mold, which covers tree foliage and drips onto anything underneath the trees.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Gucci is clearly embracing jewelry as the characters were dripping with huge pieces, including big ’80s-style earrings.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Brushed with a maltose syrup glaze, the ducks roast in a custom oven over a water bath, where fat drips into water instead of flames, keeping the meat moist and the smoke clean.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
This, in turn, grows black sooty mold, which covers tree foliage and drips onto anything underneath the trees.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
Makeup artist Yadim Carranza, using MAC Cosmetics, made tears drip like candle wax down the dirty cheeks (clean beauty, rejected) of models.
—Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Gucci is clearly embracing jewelry as the characters were dripping with huge pieces, including big ’80s-style earrings.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drip
Noun
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Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Employees, guests and residents were forced to hastily evacuate as a wildfire bore down.—
Ryan Heinsius,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Precisely tailored pieces were paired with intricate and flamboyant textures, from a top hand embroidered with crystal briolettes and round glass beads to the luminous shimmer of skirts in leather and recycled fiberglass.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
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Each bead represented a step in the plan of salvation.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Keeping your centerpieces low and unobtrusive is a dinner party must to allow conversation to flow.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Oct. 2025
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Trump insists that trillions in new investment are flowing in, the trade deficit is shrinking, and the nation is flush enough to consider mailing out checks.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Marco Rubio, one arm flung over the back of his chair, made no attempt to disguise a yawn.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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And if your first response is to yawn, who can blame you?—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But salmon have no boundaries, and bears in pursuit often wander close enough to count droplets clinging to their fur.—
Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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Inside the most complex machine mankind has ever devised, a laser beam hits a droplet of tin 50,000 times per second, generating temperatures 40 times those found on the surface of the Sun.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Residents in rural Lapel are seeing brown water pouring from their kitchen and bathroom taps.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
6 Oct. 2025
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Inside the speakeasy, Stewart got behind the bar and poured shots.—
Mark Gray,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.—
Elise Cutts,
Wired News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While gently gliding down a clear Jamaican river, surrounded by dense green jungle, the sound of water trickling along the raft and birds in the distance gives the video an idyllic feel at first glance.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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As a result, a lot of interest from her rabid fan base has trickled into the NFL stratosphere, which is something that Jones has noticed.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Drip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drip. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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