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as in to flow
to move in a stream
water gently pouring down the canal toward the dam
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as in to rush
to flow out in great quantities or with force
tears pouring down his cheeks
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as in to rain
to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds
it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella
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as in to lavish
to give readily and in large quantities
repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area
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Recent Examples of pour
Then, pour a cup of baking soda down the drain.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Megacap rival Microsoft has poured $100 billion into Bing and hasn’t been able to catch Google’s Chrome.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
But on August 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov poured cold water on the plan.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Decanting helps to separate the sediment from the wine before pouring it into your glass.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Megacap rival Microsoft has poured $100 billion into Bing and hasn’t been able to catch Google’s Chrome.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
But on August 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov poured cold water on the plan.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Decanting helps to separate the sediment from the wine before pouring it into your glass.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pour
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Targeting Youth with Global K-Drama Appeal The premiere of W, Dos Mundos extends UNIMÁS's programming strategy of tapping premium, high-production-value K-dramas — dubbed in Spanish — to diversify primetime and grow share among younger viewers who already stream Korean content.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Williams said in a news briefing streamed by WDIV that the incident began when a man complained about noise with people having a barbecue behind the apartment.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025
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To get the blood flowing, it is recommended to perform movements such as Turkish get-ups, incline bench presses, or flat bench presses.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The device—about the size of a playing card—is placed on a patient's chest to take an ECG recording of the electrical signals from their heart, while its microphone records the sound of blood flowing through the heart.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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In Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, the recording studio G-Force Records has come under the ownership of Scooter’s uncle and instead of Aerosmith, the Muppets’ Electric Mayhem must rush to get to their concert on time.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The three of us leaped from the monsoonmobile as soon as Olbinski put it into park, rushing to the wall overlooking the tarmac and the haboob closing in on us.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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From Virginia to Massachusetts, multiple states saw temperatures plunge into the late 60s Fahrenheit as Erin brought cool winds and rain to the coastal regions.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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After the explosion, paperwork from the dispute rained down on the house.—
Nathaniel Levine,
Sacbee.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, for all the time lavished upon Tom’s grief or Robbie’s, far less attention is directed toward some of the other characters in their periphery, who’ve struggled just as much if not more.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Gilbert, newly flush with seemingly unlimited cash, and filled with both a desire to be useful and the existential unease of someone who has just won the lottery, begins covering her friends’ therapy bills and tuition payments, and lavishing jewelry, weddings, and houses (plural) on them.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Levante’s players, coach and staff played a big role in providing crucial supplies and support when the team’s home city of Valencia was badly flooded last October.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.—
Shoshi Parks,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2025
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After filming had concluded in May, Muniz took to social media to gush about working with his old and new Malcolm costars.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Sep. 2025
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Brooke gushed in the comments section.—
Jack Irvin,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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North Carolina, hosting a standalone game on ESPN as the final game of college football’s Week 1, looked more like the late-era New England Patriots teams that precipitated Belichick’s departure from the NFL than the early teams that built one of the league’s proudest dynasties.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Early signs of fraud in the AI era Chanos’s framework for predicting the rise of fraud is that it is precipitated by periods of mass financial growth.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Pour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pour. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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