as in to reveal
to make known (as information previously kept secret)
the actor's butler spilled the secret to a tabloid for $40,000
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Recent Examples of spill
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
Be Self-Aware A major key for momming while overwhelmed is not making a routine of allowing our stress to spill over onto our children.
—Jazmine Denise Thompson, Essence, 22 Jan. 2025
Georgia Godfrey, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
And as often as Onana has bailed his team-mates out this season, there have also been familiar errors, including his spill to gift Rutter Brighton’s third.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Blot spills immediately with a colorfast cloth and lift solids with a spoon or spatula.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
Be Self-Aware A major key for momming while overwhelmed is not making a routine of allowing our stress to spill over onto our children.
—Jazmine Denise Thompson, Essence, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened, the company didn’t have a crisis communication plan.
—Georgia Godfrey, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
And as often as Onana has bailed his team-mates out this season, there have also been familiar errors, including his spill to gift Rutter Brighton’s third.
—Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spill
Verb
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Whether a deal gets done for either big will be revealed soon.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2025
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Studying the moon also could reveal what conditions were like early on in the solar system as asteroids and other rocky debris collided with planets and moons.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Anya Taylor-Joy in New York Raymond Hall Alexander McQueen fall 2024 Courtesy of Alexander McQueen Later in the day, Taylor-Joy changed into something a bit more mobile.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Two people were accused of supplying the singer with drugs, and three others were accused of negligence related to his fall.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
2 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Contrary to realty ethics rules, Pearl did not disclose in the listing that the house doesn’t have a certificate of occupancy, and its building permit expired Feb. 15.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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As massive as these industrial farms can be, state officials disclose little information about dry-litter poultry farms, the roughly 4,700 farms responsible for raising more than 99% of the state’s billion birds, according to state agricultural data.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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That included Rick Pitino’s St. John’s team rising three spots to No. 12, the highest ranking for the program since finishing the 1999-2000 season at No. 9. Sliding Mississippi State had the week’s biggest tumble, falling eight spots to No. 22 after home losses to Alabama and Missouri.—
Aaron Beard,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Place your jacket in a tumble dryer with three clean tennis balls or wool dryer balls.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
31 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Nearly four years after Gabby Petito’s remains were discovered in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, Netflix is set to release a new docuseries into the shocking murder of the #vanlife vlogger by her then-fiancé, Brian Laundrie.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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This refuge provided temporary shelter until it was discovered in 1942.—
Natalia Romik / Madę by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But what makes our own effort worthy of admiration is not the perfection of the first try, but the effort of pushing into uncomfortable territory, and by trying over and over again, despite the stumble and failure!—
Nathan Furr,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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There were stumbles, as in late 2023 when a Hezbollah technician got suspicious about the batteries in the walkie-talkies.—
Mark Mazzetti,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The dealership employee told police that Pan had asked to borrow the car for a test drive and had never returned.—
Emma Steele,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2025
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The 24-year-old Brooklyn man who was run down by a group of attackers and fatally stabbed Thursday was a father and aspiring rapper, the victim’s family told the Daily News Saturday.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the performance department, the GV80 has an electronic limited slip differential in the rear axle assembly for a more advanced all wheel drive traction control system.—
Tony Leopardo,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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The man posted a screenshot of a betting slip for Rozier to record fewer than 6.5 assists, which paid him $222 on a $122 bet.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Spill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spill. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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