Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiling
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The auditorium at The Highland Center hosts everything from energetic clogging groups to toe-tapping bluegrass bands for a $5 entry fee (or with the festival keychain).—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026 -
If these contaminants aren’t removed, the continuous buildup can lead to clogging in your fuel system.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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Oil storage tanks are filling up across the region, analysts say, since exports have all but stopped due to the Iranians effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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Dreamers has flat spots here and there, but its messianic clarity never has trouble filling the room.—
Brian Howe,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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Senate Bill 443 would increase penalties for obstructing highways or streets.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Brown is charged with two counts of resisting and obstructing an officer, along with open container of alcohol in a vehicle.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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As these boar and beavers escape, digging up his neighbor’s fields and damming his streams, the two farmers begin to butt heads.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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Designed for a valley miles away from the Sacramento River, the reservoir would pump water through an underground pipe connecting to the river, rather than damming and trapping its water supply.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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Early in the second period, just after Greaves got caught out of the net while playing a puck to his right, Provorov hustled to the other side of the net and sprawled across the ice, blocking a shot by Florida’s Tomas Nosek that would have tied the score at 1.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Enter Brick, an app-blocking device.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
6 Mar. 2026
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Israel attacked oil depots on Sunday, igniting huge fires that smothered Tehran in thick, choking smoke, amid what residents have said is the heaviest bombing of the war so far.—
Patrick Reevell,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
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This often results in a choking, snorting, or gasping sound as normal breathing resumes.—
Daniel Combs,
Verywell Health,
9 Mar. 2026
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The signature ingredient, however, is the brand’s plum complex—the sister founders of Le Prunier use materials from their family’s century-old plum farm—to support collagen production, skin barrier health, and hydration without congesting pores.—
Emily Orofino,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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America does not need more trucks congesting roads in large population centers.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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For example, if a ball rolled behind some occluding object and temporarily disappeared from view, the model generated an error when the ball didn’t reappear from behind the object in future frames.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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In the immediate aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, one of the most vexing things occluding the facts of what happened was a general illiteracy regarding the online culture that had engulfed the alleged killer — its memes and codes and ideologies.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Spiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiling. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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