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as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily
watched the game while slopping prodigious quantities of beer
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Recent Examples of slopped
Judging from the way Sam slopped wine into the glasses, at least five or six bottles.
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Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slopped
Verb
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Inside, jelly and barbecue sauce are splashed all over the rug.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
6 May 2026
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The group of four astronauts splashed down off the coast of San Diego on Friday, April 10, after making a historic trip around the moon.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
Verb
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One is the Holocaust, which devoured the lives of many of the people in her pages.—
Adam Hochschild,
The New York Review of Books,
9 May 2026
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With its topping of crunchy cornflakes, a hashbrown casserole will be devoured when served at breakfast, lunch, or dinner.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
Verb
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Water sloshed across a shallow, rocky shelf, sweeping away the sediments there, along with the algae that serves as the primary food source for this species.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Transmission to people generally happens when virus-laden rodent excreta gets stirred up in dust and inhaled—for example, a person sweeping out a shed or garage with a rodent infestation without a mask.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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The virus is carried through water droplets and can by inhaled by neighbors or in some cases spread through touch on things like doorhandles and public surfaces.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
Verb
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Settlement talks Sixteen lawyers crammed the tables next to Judge Bredar in the largest federal courtroom in Baltimore for the pre-trial hearing.—
Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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Ultra-small chloroplasts could be weak collectors of light and carbon dioxide, or they may be crammed too tightly, like the contents of a large home stuffed into a studio apartment.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
4 May 2026
Verb
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Critics initially scoffed when Mozilla didn’t obtain CVE designations for any of the 271 vulnerabilities.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2026
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Marin directed some of his ire at Esalen, the epicenter of the Human Potential Movement and the playground, its critics scoffed, of those privileged enough to spend their days ruminating over the self.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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The pieces have accreted over time, gobbled up from years and years of StackExchange posts and Reddit threads.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2026
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Spots are gobbled up within minutes of going online for reservations, with the beachfront spots among the hardest to nab in the State Park’s system.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
2 May 2026
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“Slopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slopped. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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