as in drool
the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands
our mouths filled with saliva when we smelled the delicious dinner
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Recent Examples of saliva
The researchers also collected saliva, urine, blood samples, and muscle biopsies from the participants’ legs to measure myofibrillar protein breakdown (MPB), which shows whether muscles are gaining or losing protein.
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Julia Ries, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
Everyone was asked to chew a piece of gum for four minutes to produce a saliva sample from each.
—Gretchen Eichenberg, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Rodents pass the virus through their droppings, urine and saliva.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Customers send vials of their saliva to 23andMe for results on ancestry and health.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
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Julia Ries, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
Everyone was asked to chew a piece of gum for four minutes to produce a saliva sample from each.
—Gretchen Eichenberg, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Rodents pass the virus through their droppings, urine and saliva.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Customers send vials of their saliva to 23andMe for results on ancestry and health.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saliva
Noun
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The conquistadors raped Indigenous women, chopped off Indians’ hands, used swords as spits to roast Indian babies over fires as their mothers watched.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Post turned the main stage into a rock & roll ramp fit for an F-1, complete with street lights that stood tall behind the band and barrels that spit fire scattered all over.—
John Lonsdale,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2025
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The mayor nodded and smiled, but also flinched, as though struck by spittle.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2024
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Filling the air with spittle as plentiful as the Allied bombs raining down along the English Channel.—
John Anderson,
WSJ,
31 Oct. 2023
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“Saliva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saliva. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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