Thesaurus results for SLOSHING

sloshing

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present participle of slosh

as in splashing

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 slopping

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 sloshing The massive amounts of debris that impact created then crashed back to the lunar surface, creating a tidal wave 11 times taller than Mount Everest and then sloshing around for two hours to form the outer two of the basin’s three concentric rims. —

Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026 The common factor in all of this is the Federal Reserve (albeit acting in very good faith in response to successive defense, financial and health crises) increased the amount of money sloshing around relative to the size of the economy to unprecedented levels. —

Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026 Meantime, outflows both from both software and crypto (an asset class most correlated with unprofitable tech stocks) grew excessive until the savage software/bitcoin selloff hit an extreme Thursday, when money came sloshing in to catch the falling knives. —

Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026 Plenty of money is sloshing around the Texas Senate race. —

Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026 The vacuum cleaner has powerful suction, 8,000 Pa, and the mop cleans without sloshing and smearing water on the floor. —

Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2026 But with the second installment still sloshing around in my memory, my sense of wonder began to wander during this film's three and a quarter hours. —

Bob Mondello, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 Ford would then have to cradle 10 cups of sloshing lemonade on the drive home. —

Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025 Where else were so many opinionated readers and writers sloshing in the same warm pool water, where the frenzied, silly posting merged real life stakes with absolute, terrifying chaos? —

Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025

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Artemis 2 will come home on Day 10 of the mission, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Once the spacecraft is past that danger zone, eight parachutes will slow the spacecraft down even more before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

— Brendan Byrne, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026