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Recent Examples of spume
But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air.
—Ethan Pan, Outside Online, 23 May 2024
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume — evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air.
—Ethan Pan, Outside Online, 23 May 2024
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume — evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning.
—Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume.
—Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spume
Noun
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The foam panels can press awkwardly against the bust, forcing the vest to ride up toward the chin when arms are raised.—
Marisa McMillan,
Outside,
27 Feb. 2026
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Buy a travel pillow like the Dot&Dot Twist Memory Foam Travel Neck Pillow with a removable foam insert, take that stuffing out, and replace it with clothes.—
Jenn Rice,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This eco-friendly bamboo house—close to both of the surf spots mentioned above—is just minutes from the beaches of Aguadilla’s west coast.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
26 Feb. 2026
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This brilliantly acerbic novel is set up as a millennial comedy of manners, but when Remy and Alicia head to the Hamptons for a surf weekend with Instagram-baddie Jen, a pair of glowing eyes in the bushes is just the first indication that things are very, very wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Spume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spume. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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