as in smears
to put a thick layer of a liquid, cream, etc. over (something)
We ate lobster slathered with butter. She slathered her skin with sunscreen.
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Recent Examples of slathers
Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 16 May 2026
Verb
The one that slathers every bowl with ungodly amounts of cheese?
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slathers
Verb
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This chilling, starkly beautiful ambient piece draws Nebraska’s marginal whispers to the forefront and smears them across the picture plane.—
Sasha Geffen,
Pitchfork,
10 Mar. 2026
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The five pieces offer, in turn, biomorphic hints of de Kooning, the ragged shapes of Clyfford Still, the bold geometries of Ellsworth Kelly, the paint smears of Gerhard Richter, and something that looks like toothpaste squeezed onto an orange peel.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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The iPhone maker isn’t spending gobs of cash in the race to expand AI computing capacity, instead partnering with Google to power artificial intelligence features.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In a city that continually anoints anoints new noteworthies in the hospitality space, The Connaught remains one of London’s long-lasting greats.—
Katharine Sohn,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2026
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The episode officially anoints a new captain for the 118 — and sees Harry considering a life fighting fires.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The beaches of South Florida are currently clogged with bristly, stinky and downright annoying piles of seaweed known as sargassum.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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Seeds end up at municipal compost sites, transfer stations, or in community mulch piles, where they're unknowingly redistributed and introduced to new areas.—
Breana Pitts,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Inside, investigators discovered guns, knives, and stacks of cash.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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As tech stacks grow and the online landscape keeps changing, business owners are looking for ways to protect their digital assets and workflows with effective tools that can scale with their business ambitions.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
Noun
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By using air, water, and microbiology, the system turns food waste to environmentally safe liquid; then funneling refuse into Manhattan sewage, reducing heaps of landfill waste from production.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 June 2026
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Luckily, the heaps of flattery didn't go to his head.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 May 2026
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And Lamanna’s coauthor Jingmai O’Connor, vertebrate paleontologist and associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago’s Field Museum, also pointed out wads of bone found in the Changma Basin resemble pellets that owls regurgitate after feeding on prey.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Not as punishment, but to better know our playing grounds and appreciate the big and small things—like freeing wads of vegetation from an undercarriage—that turn a field into a stage.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Scientists and researchers rely on devices like Element’s to read large quantities of genetic data to study — and sometimes treat — the root of genetic diseases and disorders.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
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Water consumption and pollution Data centers require vast quantities of water to cool their servers.—
Ed Maibach,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
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“Slathers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slathers. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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