Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wash (over)
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The Mets have lost seven straight, scoring only 10 runs over that span.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026 -
The driver continued on after running over the man, the complaint states.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Carbios reported a financial loss of about $12 million, reflecting lower income from cash investments, interest flows with subsidiaries, interest paid on loans and a non-cash impairment provision.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The deadline has prompted security engineers to focus preparations to ward off harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL, and also store now, decrypt later) threats, in which adversaries squirrel away encrypted data flowing over the Internet with the plan of decrypting it on Q-Day—the date a CRQC arrives.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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And it’s appeared to boil over into the clubhouse.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 Apr. 2026
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At the exact moment that things threaten to boil over, Austin (Charles Melton) and Ashley (Cailee Spaeny) show up at the Martíns’ doorstep.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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The Cox Contour app lets customers access the latest news and weather anytime as well as stream their favorite content on smartphones and tablets.—
Cox Communications,
Oc Register,
17 Apr. 2026
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Hundreds of friends, family members and fellow local and state government officials streamed into Church by the Glades in Coral Springs on Friday morning to celebrate the life of Coral Springs vice mayor Nancy Metayer.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026
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The airbender has not been present in flushing thus far.—
James O'Connell,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2026
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This looks well-proportioned and contains a vanity sink, a walk-in shower, a flushing toilet, and a washer/dryer.—
Adam Williams
April 22,
New Atlas,
22 Apr. 2026
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For the center of the piazza, Noguchi has designed a fountain that would spurt up into the air and then spill over onto the piazza.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Keep an eye out for the coton de tulear, which spurted from 92nd in 2024 to 79th last year.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Mar. 2026
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But bad actors have learned to weaponize that same amendment as a shield, flooding the information ecosystem with content designed to discreetly destabilize our communities.—
Julian Baron,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Apr. 2026
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Last year, many of her chile plants were swallowed whole when a reservoir nearby (which the farmers use to harvest rainwater) flooded its banks during the monsoons.—
Kamala Thiagarajan,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
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Fuqua hadn’t planned to downplay the controversy that engulfed Jackson in his final decades.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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For the first time since Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades engulfed his apartment building in November, Mak stepped into his former home again Monday.—
Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Wash (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wash%20%28over%29. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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