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Recent Examples of droplet
But salmon have no boundaries, and bears in pursuit often wander close enough to count droplets clinging to their fur.
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Susan Portnoy, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
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, 2 Oct. 2025
But as early as 1892, scientists have noted that tiny droplets of water in the air can be positively or negatively charged in situations such as waterfall spray or fog.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
Police later found a broken basement window with blood on it and several blood droplets inside the house.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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Susan Portnoy, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
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, 2 Oct. 2025
But as early as 1892, scientists have noted that tiny droplets of water in the air can be positively or negatively charged in situations such as waterfall spray or fog.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
Police later found a broken basement window with blood on it and several blood droplets inside the house.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for droplet
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For years, families hoping to make cherished memories at the attraction have had to weave around the animal rights protestors stationed on the sidewalk outside, equipped with signs, bullhorns, rosary beads and incense.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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The same thing goes for the kinds of shells that people made into beads.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
8 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
Noun
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Those bright white tees seem to be absolute stain magnets attracting coffee drips, spaghetti sauce spots, and salad dressing splashes.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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Our soundtrack is the drip-drip-drip of water on concrete.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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New additives like preservatives, flavorings and vitamins were infused into them, and they were packaged in novel ways to withstand hard helicopter drops, wet beach landings and days at the bottom of rucksacks.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Drag performance, with its abundance of wigs, campy makeup and death drops, is ready-made for Halloween.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Droplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droplet. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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