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spume

noun

ˈspyüm

Definition of spume

as in foam

a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid spume floating on the ocean

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Recent Examples of spume But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024 The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air. — Ethan Pan, Outside Online, 23 May 2024 The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning. — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water. — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021 In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018

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These fun masks foam up on the skin to remove dirt, oil, debris, and other pollutants that can clog your pores.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
John Nurse used hula hoops, spray insulation foam, and the chassis of a 1979 Honda Odyssey ATV to build a dragon based on his 10-year-old's direction.

— Deena Prichep, NPR, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of foam

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The shoreline and break at Seabright Beach are relatively steep, with heavy surf that breaks close to shore, the state parks said.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Williams went viral for his dramatic July 25 rescue of Nathaniel Rai, who was caught in the treacherous surf.

— Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

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