as in to rinse
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse
he sluiced the gutters with lots of water in order to make sure they were clear
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
Spanish cinema is sluiced by a winning sense of genre, movies hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Operators can open up more sluices in times of need.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
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Verb
Trump and Biden are running for President in an era of infinite expressivity, a time in which words themselves are cheap, sluicing around the Internet, dribbling from humans as well as bots and A.I. programs: words of uncertain truth-value, words that sometimes don’t even make sense.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
Spanish cinema is sluiced by a winning sense of genre, movies hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
The advanced technology along with deep learning algorithms is in this way helping to throw open the sluice gates to data thus empowering everyone to engage with it and better understand it.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Operators can open up more sluices in times of need.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
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“Sluice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluice. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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