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Recent Examples of Synonyms for washing (over)
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Rather than running over the holiday weekend, the local group opted to celebrate on Wednesday evening at Hagan Community Park.
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This model takes a field of placeholder tokens running over the canvas multiple times to generate likely tokens and using those to improve estimation of others.
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There's a full rainbow of primal prints to explore, like this flowing calf-print caftan from Moroccan designer Fadila El Gadi.
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Venture funding is also flowing into European defense technology, such as drones and autonomous systems.
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Hives, flushing, nausea and diarrhea are common.
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Another that pops up is that flushing a tick down the toilet is a good way to kill it.
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Xenophobia has enveloped South Africa for years, and now a rising tide of anti-migrant views is flooding the country.
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Harold remembers crowds flooding in the day the doors opened.
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Bang My Box premiered on HBO on June 30, and is now streaming on HBO Max.
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The United States of Asian+America is now streaming on YouTube.
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The critic reviews of Supergirl didn’t wind up in the same galaxy as the overwhelming majority of the gushing first reaction crowd.
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In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground.
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The peonies in my yard were blooming, spurting really.
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Ultimately, all the statues end up in place, the fountain starts spurting red water like the Kool-Aid Man had been stabbed, and their prize pot grows to $106,000.
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“Washing (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/washing%20%28over%29. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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