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Recent Examples of spit up
Krasheninnikova first began spilling lava and spitting up ash on the morning of August 3 2025, according to reports from the Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Common at-home methods to help spit up a stone include swishing with a saltwater solution and coughing deeply.4
Why do tonsil stones smell so bad?
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
What will actually happen is that little Sean will spit up all over your new suit — moments before the big job interview.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
Deer, like cows, spit up their food multiple times per day, re-chew it and swallow again.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 26 May 2025
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Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Common at-home methods to help spit up a stone include swishing with a saltwater solution and coughing deeply.4
Why do tonsil stones smell so bad?
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
What will actually happen is that little Sean will spit up all over your new suit — moments before the big job interview.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
Deer, like cows, spit up their food multiple times per day, re-chew it and swallow again.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spit up
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Zavala eventually gets up and goes to the bathroom to vomit.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
17 Jan. 2026
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Quidone walked past a correction officer, looking sick, and again vomited into a dayroom trash bin before moving sluggishly back to his cell.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2026
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Throughout his career, it was rumored that Hall threw up from nerves before each game, a fact the late Hawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz supported, having witnessed it while attending games during his youth at Chicago Stadium.—
Chris Kuc,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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The skinny on why cats throw up, and when you should be concerned.—
Jane Sykes,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
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Even searches for ethnic slurs hurled at Danish people — language that has historically crept into the American lexicon to dehumanize wartime enemies — come up thin.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Jan. 2026
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Instead, Williams rolled to his left, leaped in the air and hurled the ball downfield, all in one motion — and completed a 27-yard pass.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Spit up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spit%20up. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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