as in splashed
to flow in a broken irregular stream
the tiny stream gurgled down the rocky slope and joined the larger river at the bottom of the hill
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Recent Examples of gurgled
Luis was dressed in his hospital pyjamas; his pained breathing fogged his mask while the oxygen canister gurgled and whirred.
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Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gurgled
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News reports gleefully described his six houses, his sixteen Chinese servants, his lavish parties, his $2,000 cashmere suits, and his twelve cars—one of which was a champagne-pink Cadillac with his name splashed across the side in neon lights.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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But on July 7, 2019, his cables were leaked and splashed on the front page of Britain’s Mail on Sunday.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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But a series of floods in the Midwest washed the carp from fish farms into major rivers, where their populations have boomed.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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Seawater lead concentrations were highest in the month after the fire and in October, when the season’s first major rain had just washed months’ worth of urban pollution into the ocean.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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The site, which bubbled and hissed for decades, is still called the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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Disagreements bubbled up about everything from ethical-use cases to whether Bitcoin’s ecosystem should expand to include new tokens.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
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Another young woman dripped blood down her nose from a gash hastily covered by a strip of fabric tied around her forehead just blocks away, while still walking into the masses along the route with her friends.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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The One Battle After Another star dripped in a necklace of over 18 carats.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
15 Mar. 2026
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In Minneapolis, Jeff Anderson’s wholesale trade company is bracing for another wave of price increases after tariffs rippled through his supply chain.—
Rachel Siegel,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2026
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During his time as chair, Powell has faced a global pandemic that rippled through supply chains for years, a startling war in Ukraine that caused an energy shock, a battery of tariffs, and now this war in Iran, which the IEA has warned threatens to cause the worst energy crisis in history.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Knight got a piece of Quinn Hughes' shot, but the puck trickled behind him in the crease.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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As word that filming had paused trickled out—before the allegations were known—rumors spread that Paul being the Bachelorette had caused friction among the Mormon Wives stars, which was what led to the hiatus.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Gurgled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gurgled. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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