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fizzing

verb

present participle of fizz

as in hissing

to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\ soda pop fizzing in the glass

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Recent Examples of fizzing The idea behind it — these people who just want to break free of convention — was fizzing inside. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026 Concierge Peter Buday and his team are the standouts, fizzing with advice and information—about where to find the best bars, and other discoveries. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 Looking after the ball is one thing, but Tielemans acts as the catalyst for his side’s attacking sequences — fizzing passes forward to disrupt the opposition’s shape and feed the most creative players in the team. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 13 July 2026 The animal, fizzing with the inexhaustible energy of a creature bred for hauling chockablock toboggans, was confined to a tiny pen, a mere twenty feet square, behind the neighbor’s trailer. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026 Spray a light amount of vinegar over the paste, which will cause a fizzing reaction that can help to get rid of grime. — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 2 July 2026 If your bubbling or fizzing mixture produced a small reaction, your soil sample skews more toward the neutral end of the alkaline or acidic spectrum. — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 May 2026 Isabelle Legeron, the founder of Raw Wine, says the scene is fizzing in Montreal and Tokyo. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026 Per Sē contrasts the delightfully retro, lipstick-y aroma of orris butter with a fresh, fizzing swell of aldehydes, pink pepper, and bamboo. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026

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And in 2022, Japanese researchers turned a Madagascar hissing cockroach into a cyborg for search-and-rescue missions using a similar, though more sophisticated, approach.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
The complete assembly weighs just enough for the Madagascar hissing cockroach, a species favored for cyborg research because of its large size, robustness, and wingless body, to carry without significantly impairing its movement.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 July 2026

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The generational tension has been bubbling for years, including in the housing market, where high mortgage rates and home prices have locked out many younger families.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the top layer is golden brown and the filling is bubbling.

— Terrence Hayes, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026

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