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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 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.
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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
Footage of the ordeal, which Anaver shared on his Facebook page that Sunday morning, showed many of his belongings sloshing around in the water inside his home as the storm passed through.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
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
Footage of the ordeal, which Anaver shared on his Facebook page that Sunday morning, showed many of his belongings sloshing around in the water inside his home as the storm passed through.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloshing
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Muller has spent the past 12 years experiencing the ups and downs, fitful starts and stops her sport has endured since first splashing on the Swiss hockey scene as a 15-year-old by scoring her nation’s first bronze-medal clinching goal at the 2014 Sochi Games.—
John Wawrow,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Smaller kids will enjoy splashing around at the Penguin Play Bay, a (warm) shallow adventure lagoon, while adults seeking relaxation float down The Lost River, made to look like the site of ruins, or kick back in the Mystic Springs hot pool.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
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The effects are still rippling through American institutions, and the long-term consequences of this upheaval remain to be seen.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
24 Feb. 2026
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Though this satellite imagery is in grayscale, lucky skywatchers on the ground would have likely seen curtains of green light with possible magentas and reds rippling overhead.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Sloshing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloshing. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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