as in to splash
to flow in a broken irregular stream
water rippling gently over the tiers of the fountain
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Recent Examples of ripple
Trickleup, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
These motors either optimize for efficiency, giving you more miles per charge, or focus on reducing torque ripple, the small but noticeable vibrations felt during acceleration.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
The consequences are already rippling through the economy.
—Delon Thornton, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Elections can upend the development sector and ripple across our strategies overnight.
—Trickleup, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
These motors either optimize for efficiency, giving you more miles per charge, or focus on reducing torque ripple, the small but noticeable vibrations felt during acceleration.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
At times, this approach rippled through the interior department, as was the case with the Solène-embargo fiasco.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
The consequences are already rippling through the economy.
—Delon Thornton, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripple
Verb
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Those images were splashed across the news, newspapers, and social media.—
Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez,
The Dial,
16 Sep. 2025
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However, a few rebuilding teams could be poised to splash around in the free-agent pool by 2027 as well.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For a time, the engine, with its distinctive exhaust warble, became closely associated with Audi’s lineup, aided in no small part by the motorsport successes of five-cylinder rally cars like the Sport Quattro S1 E2.—
Bradley Iger,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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The music fills our bodies, its rhythm melding with a deeper-time cycle of day-to-night, seasons changing, the imperceptible warble of a planet spinning gently on its axis.—
Florence Williams,
Outside Online,
11 May 2025
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If the vulnerability had been discovered by, or fallen into the hands of, malicious hackers, the fallout could have been devastating.—
Kevin Purdy,
ArsTechnica,
20 Sep. 2025
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Lizzo, Jimmy Fallon and Kelly Clarkson, who faced similar accusations that their tours and shows were toxic environments, have weathered the fallout.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The lid and straw are dishwasher safe, while the brand recommends hand washing the cup to maintain the insulation.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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The female nurse washed her neck.—
Laura Vazquez,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That human disconnect isn't just a side effect of modernization.—
Dr. Taha Kass-Hout,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This is when a doctor can help determine whether the issue is a blockage, a nerve problem, a side effect of medication or something else entirely.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, the front curls folded like waves over the top of her head; baby hairs falling alongside.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
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From the Curly Girl Method to T-shirt plopping techniques, there’s no shortage of viral curl styling hacks to to pull from your TikTok feed.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Otherwise, plan to clean the bottom of the oven anytime a dish bubbles over.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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Speculation has bubbled that Noah and her siblings, including Miley, had taken sides in the break-up.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Ripple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripple. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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