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slosh

1
as in to ripple
to move with a splashing motion the baby gurgled contentedly as the water sloshed gently around him in the bathtub

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as in to splash
to cause (something liquid or mushy) to move along in sheets while painting the Windsor chair, he carelessly sloshed paint all over the adjacent wall

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Recent Examples of slosh To boot, the hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing around the AI industry has left investors with plenty of cash to back up their optimism. Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 The patient − a baby raccoon − was sloshed. Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 Blood and vomit sloshed on the floor, and some of the men fainted from the pain and the stress. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Those gravitational waves still exist today and gently slosh over Earth. Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slosh
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  • The program’s effects ripple through grocery aisles and beyond, said Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, a health policy researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • When habitats sit close together, a single weak link can ripple across bird routes, pollinator paths, and seed banks.
    William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • Then Oliver splashes his blameless girlfriend in the face, and the three men flee, chased by a group of enraged barflies.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Viewers were able to see the hilarious shot of Jinky in the bath quickly cut to a very telling scene of the same dog bounding into a marshland or small lake, tail wagging, body splashing through mud and water in total ecstasy.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025

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“Slosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slosh. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.

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