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sloshing

verb

present participle of slosh

as in splashing

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 slopping

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 sloshing 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 As for all this money allegedly sloshing around, one wonders if Hartley or Warsh wonder why so little can be found in west Baltimore (MD), El Monte (CA) and Pueblo (CO), but so much in Atherton, Lake Forest and New Canaan. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Multiple baffles within the bladder help keep the liquid from sloshing around excessively, while a wide waterproof zipper across the top makes for easy filling, cleaning, and adding of electrolytes. — Ben Coxworth may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2026 The sloshing water within the fjord established a 66-second long-period seiche, a standing wave, that reverberated back and forth for 36 hours. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 May 2026 There’s plenty of money sloshing around in the ever-growing (tomato) pie. — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 8 May 2026

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With designers including Prada, Acne Studios and Dior splashing their Spring/Summer 2027 menswear runways with colored denim, the category is positioned to grow well beyond 2026.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 29 July 2026
But the Ship upper stage hit all of its marks, successfully deploying 20 next-gen Starlink satellites, re-igniting one of its Raptor engines in space as planned and splashing down softly off the coast of Western Australia.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 July 2026

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