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Clean any puddles as soon as possible and store shoes on a rubber mat or in a different room, such as a garage or room with tile.
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Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 30 Dec. 2025
Water for pets, leaky pipes and faucets, damp basements and crawl spaces, and puddles in the yard provide good water sources.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Annie, in her summer uniform—a knee-length skirt, a T-shirt, and Keds—joined the crew, pulling equipment out of the puddles.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
And not having to filter out bugs and debris from a shallow puddle is also rare.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
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Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 30 Dec. 2025
Water for pets, leaky pipes and faucets, damp basements and crawl spaces, and puddles in the yard provide good water sources.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Annie, in her summer uniform—a knee-length skirt, a T-shirt, and Keds—joined the crew, pulling equipment out of the puddles.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
And not having to filter out bugs and debris from a shallow puddle is also rare.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puddle
pool
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Like the neighborhood kids playing at the community pool, also from his 1975 series, a stop-you-in-your-tracks, sincere, insightful, nostalgic slice of life from before kids were on their devices all day, kids turned loose by parents to have fun and make friends IRL.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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With the shot clock running down, Franklin passed the ball from the near mid-pool to Franklin positioned in front of the Beckman goal.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Puddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puddle. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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