Thesaurus results for SALIVATES

salivates

verb

present tense third-person singular of salivate

as in drools

to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth the dog salivated at the sight of the raw meat

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Recent Examples of salivates The stars have been delivering the kind of high-fashion moments the industry at the center of the film salivates over, studies and celebrates. — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026

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spits

Verb

The verifier performs some calculations on the outputs of the original AI model, and spits out a high certainty score that this model is GPT-OSS-120B, which is exactly correct.

— Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026