as in to splash
to flow in a broken irregular stream
water rippling gently over the tiers of the fountain
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Recent Examples of ripple
Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
Elections can upend the development sector and ripple across our strategies overnight.
—Trickleup, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Nik Popli, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
That remarkable resurgence, from one of the oldest players on a team rippling with youth, helped the Red Sox back into the postseason for the first time in four years.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The sun keeps setting as small caravans trudge through high grasses, over rocky ripple, and finally, into the marsh.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
Elections can upend the development sector and ripple across our strategies overnight.
—Trickleup, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
While legislation passed in 2019 guarantees back pay for federal employees once a shutdown ends, the CBO warned that a prolonged delay in paychecks could ripple through households and local economies, cutting consumer spending and disrupting services across the country.
—Nik Popli, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
That remarkable resurgence, from one of the oldest players on a team rippling with youth, helped the Red Sox back into the postseason for the first time in four years.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripple
Verb
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With a monochromatic look Forget a pop of red—why not splash yourself in the color?—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
26 Sep. 2025
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Other ways to stimulate the vagus nerve include cold exposure, like splashing cold water on your face or taking a brief cold shower.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For a time, the engine, with its distinctive exhaust warble, became closely associated with Audi’s lineup, aided in no small part by the motorsport successes of five-cylinder rally cars like the Sport Quattro S1 E2.—
Bradley Iger,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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The music fills our bodies, its rhythm melding with a deeper-time cycle of day-to-night, seasons changing, the imperceptible warble of a planet spinning gently on its axis.—
Florence Williams,
Outside Online,
11 May 2025
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Since his tenure ended, the LDP has faced fallout over a slush fund scandal, an inflation surge, and a rightward political shift across the country.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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The fallout has included a federal investigation, legislative proposals and multiple lawsuits.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Inspectors gave the Sacramento coffee shop a yellow placard after watching an employee skip the sanitizer step when washing a tray of cups and forks.—
Sarah Linn,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Remove screens to spray down with your garden hose and wash and squeegee the exterior glass.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The arch support worked overtime for her almost non-existing arches and prevented her shins and feet from feeling pain, an uncomfortable side effect of footwear that’s too flat.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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Concerns online have stirred conversations about whether the deterioration of oral health is a potential side effect of semaglutides.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Thanks to multiple attachments, the tool dries, curls, smooths and straightens hair without causing too much heat damage.—
Caitlyn Martyn
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FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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The singer’s textured pixie, which was cut shorter in the back, had face-framing sideburns and curls that narrowly avoided being called bangs, is hard to miss, and now, just in time for fall, has been reintroduced on the front row.—
Essence,
Essence,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In addition to the studio, which Seamen converted into a living room adorned with an oversized floral mural, the first floor has a patio with a bubbling fountain, an office, and a powder room.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
1 Oct. 2025
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Although likely unknown to older audiences, the platform is hugely popular with younger comedy fans, and has become a bubbling cauldron for emergent voices.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Ripple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripple. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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