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slosh

verb

Definition of slosh

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 That's because the size of this deal and the amount of stock that is sloshing around and will be spawned is too great. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026 Canadian quartet Truck Violence have been sloshing together these subgenres in a ruthless manner for several years now, and their sophomore album and debut for the Flenser aims for even higher drops between those peaks and valleys. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026 Abstractions that looked like scribbled pastels or Helen Frankenthaler oils or the iTunes visualizer would give way to churning data pigment, sloshing in a square frame. — Max Norman, New Yorker, 25 June 2026 There’s a lot of money sloshing around the top-end of the art market right now, as the past two marquee New York auction seasons have proven. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for slosh

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Something extraordinary these episodes illustrate, in our view, is the vulnerability of America’s highly interconnected fresh-food supply chain, in which one grower or supplier problem can ripple astonishingly fast.

— Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
That remains enough concentration for export restrictions to ripple through automotive, energy and defense industries.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026

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Antonio Banderas' house—with the dune in the background, where Tony gets splashed with water every morning—was only a mile from my house.

— Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026
The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean intact after flying halfway around the world from SpaceX’s launch base in South Texas.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026

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