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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
10 May 2026
There’s plenty of money sloshing around in the ever-growing (tomato) pie.
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Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
8 May 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloshing
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As extreme heat hits Boston, residents are finding ways to stay cool, from splashing in Frog Pond to stocking up on water at Fenway Park, while city officials and utility crews urge people to take precautions.
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After all that digging and splashing, a muddy dog still has to come back inside.
Verb
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Prairie grasses and bonnet strings whip in the wind as the creak of wagon wheels carries across the rippling grassland.
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The revenue hit is only the visible half of the story; the same pullback is rippling upstream, into the fields, feedlots, and water tables that supply all that food.
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“Sloshing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloshing. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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