slosh

1
as in to ripple
to move with a splashing motion the baby gurgled contentedly as the water sloshed gently around him in the bathtub

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as in to splash
to cause (something liquid or mushy) to move along in sheets while painting the Windsor chair, he carelessly sloshed paint all over the adjacent wall

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Recent Examples of slosh The patient − a baby raccoon − was sloshed. Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 Blood and vomit sloshed on the floor, and some of the men fainted from the pain and the stress. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Those gravitational waves still exist today and gently slosh over Earth. Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025 About 25 minutes after the temblor struck, when authorities were watching for tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean, the water in Devils Hole started to slosh. Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slosh
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  • In their 2021 work, the Google researchers were able to observe in detail how information spread across Sycamore’s grid of qubits, rippling outward from an initial state.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Paying off just the interest on this debt threatens to ripple through the economy.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • The chairman claimed his words had been taken out of context, but his comments were splashed across the back of the newspapers and caused a storm of controversy.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Avdija capped off the incendiary 12 minutes by splashing his fourth trey of the half to give the Blazers a 69-56 halftime lead.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Slosh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slosh. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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