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noun

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Recent Examples of spew
Verb
Like when running rich, excess water spews from the exhaust, or quenches the spark plugs. New Atlas, 1 Feb. 2025 Hawkins makes this seem like a monumental spew of words rather than benign chitchat. Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
The Italian Brainrot Meme, Explained Italian Brainrot is a semi-ironic trend popularized by Gen Alpha, using AI image generators to spew out an absurd, nonsensical cast of characters. Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 The Belledonne mountains’ trails appear as though they have been chewed by a giant mouth and spewed out haphazardly. Anna Richards, Outside, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spew
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spew
Verb
  • Residents in rural Lapel are seeing brown water pouring from their kitchen and bathroom taps.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Inside the speakeasy, Stewart got behind the bar and poured shots.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 2020, the duo bounced across the Tropicana Field turf before Game 1, Guerrero spitting seeds with a bandana around his neck and Bichette’s long hair still flowing behind him.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Why turn my face toward something that spit me out?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rates of nausea and vomiting among those patients were 13% and 11% above placebo, respectively.
    Annika Kim Constantino,Bertha Coombs, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Scout stayed at the vet for observation, coughing and vomiting throughout the period, and had her vitals rechecked several hours later.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Vogue’s associate shopping director Talia Abbas gushes, highlighting the stunning colorways.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Fans, on the other hand, couldn’t help but gush.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • White has the Bucs' only rushing touchdown this season.
    Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Normally, that kind of rushed means my base slips within a couple of hours—but Magic Hour came through again.
    Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During its first flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured dramatic water ice plumes erupting into space from the moon’s south pole.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The leaves on the park’s deciduous trees erupt into every shade of deep scarlet, fiery orange, and golden yellow—and visitors have front-row seats to see it all.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jupiter’s gravitational pull also hurls enormous rocks around within the asteroid belt.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Mullen was 29-6 before Marco Wilson hurled a cleat and 5-9 after it.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The animals had to figure out which of two water spouts provided a sugary drink.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The center of our Milky Way galaxy is in the area just above the teapot’s spout in Sagittarius.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Spew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spew. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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