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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 surprisingly spacious pack is lightweight and comfortable to carry, equipped with a multitude of handy pockets for your trail essentials, as well as a breathable mesh back panel that’s fitted with EVA foam.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The chemical was a component of firefighting foam and a processing aid to make a kind of plastic used in circuit boards, valves and pipes.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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Parts of the state are forecast to experience moderate to major coastal flooding, inland flash flooding, winds up to 60 mph (97 kph), up to 5 inches (about 13 centimeters) of rain and high surf, potentially causing beach erosion.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Spume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spume. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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