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as in rolls
to move in a stream
blood streaming out of a wound
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as in drifts
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
cars streaming along the freeway
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as in flows
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as in beams
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Recent Examples of streams
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Firms are looking for recurring revenue streams strong royalty income scalable formats and repeatable profitability.
—Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
All of this shouldn’t be news to Drake, a co-owner of the crypto gambling site Stake, which also owns the streaming platform Kick, where Drizzy often streams himself wagering frightening amounts of money on what look like low-budget iPhone games.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
The show streams the next day on Hulu.
—Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
The Bachelorette streams on Hulu.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
The show streams the next day on Hulu.
—Luke Chinman, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The game streams on Paramount+, according to the USA Rugby website.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Each camera runs on solar power, streams in crisp UHD, and installs wire-free, so there are no cords or constant battery swaps to deal with.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
Wireless network baby monitors utilize a camera that streams directly to your smartphone, tablet or computer.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Firms are looking for recurring revenue streams strong royalty income scalable formats and repeatable profitability.
—Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
All of this shouldn’t be news to Drake, a co-owner of the crypto gambling site Stake, which also owns the streaming platform Kick, where Drizzy often streams himself wagering frightening amounts of money on what look like low-budget iPhone games.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
The show streams the next day on Hulu.
—Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
The Bachelorette streams on Hulu.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
The show streams the next day on Hulu.
—Luke Chinman, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The game streams on Paramount+, according to the USA Rugby website.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Each camera runs on solar power, streams in crisp UHD, and installs wire-free, so there are no cords or constant battery swaps to deal with.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for streams
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Their pub has 16 beers on draft as well as pizza and a sit down restaurant while their tasting room and shop has beer to go, beer pours and merchandise.—
Em Sauter,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Essential safety tips for heavy rain When heavy rain pours, the risk of flooding and treacherous roads rises.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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An inner radiative zone (makes up 70 percent of the Sun by radius), where energy flows smoothly and the whole region spins together like a solid ball, and the outer convective zone (the remaining 30 percent), where hot gases swirl chaotically and spin at different speeds depending on location.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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And just like historical colonialism, this influence flows primarily in one direction – from powerful tech companies to the rest of us.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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In autumn, this dreamy trek among the clouds is made even more breathtaking by the changing larches, with amber rivers blazing between ice-blue sky and lagoons.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Michael VanEtten, 46, has been combing Florida rivers and streams for fossils most of his life.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The design leans rustic (give or take a couple of Togo chairs), with moss green paneling, tartan upholstery, and wood beams running throughout.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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When the spacecraft fly over radio-quiet antenna arrays, tuned to listen for the quietest radio waves coming from distant galaxies, the noise from the satellites' internal electronics obscures some of the precious observation frequencies even when Earth-facing internet beams are switched off.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Several rivulets flowed lazily through the debris.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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Perhaps those latent rivulets reside in machines.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Longshore currents can sweep swimmers and surfers into rip currents, piers, jetties, and other hazardous areas.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Look for opportunities to plug CCU into existing processes with minimal disruption.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Precision meets material innovation Advanced lasers needed to imprint such tiny formats already exist, Tsapatsis explained, but the challenge has been finding materials and processes capable of handling ever-smaller microchips.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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Midway, his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, posed three reclining Art Deco figures in a fountain, representing the three main waterways of the city.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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With more than 15 million acres of publicly accessible land, enthusiasts flock to Florida's waterways and exposed rock beds in search of ancient treasures—though permits are required for vertebrate fossils other than shark teeth.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Streams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streams. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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