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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
As for all this money allegedly sloshing around, one wonders if Hartley or Warsh wonder why so little can be found in west Baltimore (MD), El Monte (CA) and Pueblo (CO), but so much in Atherton, Lake Forest and New Canaan.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Multiple baffles within the bladder help keep the liquid from sloshing around excessively, while a wide waterproof zipper across the top makes for easy filling, cleaning, and adding of electrolytes.
—Ben Coxworth
may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2026
The sloshing water within the fjord established a 66-second long-period seiche, a standing wave, that reverberated back and forth for 36 hours.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 May 2026
There’s plenty of money sloshing around in the ever-growing (tomato) pie.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
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
John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Multiple baffles within the bladder help keep the liquid from sloshing around excessively, while a wide waterproof zipper across the top makes for easy filling, cleaning, and adding of electrolytes.
—Ben Coxworth
may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2026
The sloshing water within the fjord established a 66-second long-period seiche, a standing wave, that reverberated back and forth for 36 hours.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 May 2026
There’s plenty of money sloshing around in the ever-growing (tomato) pie.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloshing
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The splashing water captured by the camera is abstracted into a nebulous fog that dissolves the profile of a Parisian bridge in the background.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Grown-ups bring a ladder to climb into the enormous fruit, kids gather up their inflatable toys, someone makes a waterslide out of a piece of rind, and the whole community spends the day splashing in the juice and pulp (being careful to remove the seeds first).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Pipsqueaks like Adam, whose rippling muscles and Kylo Ren-sized wingspan the first act of this movie hilariously tries to hide under a loose pink button-down shirt from Beta Gap, are valued for their ability to solve their problems with words instead of violence.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 June 2026
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Inflation fears are rippling through industrial metals.—
Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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“Sloshing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloshing. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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