plural slurries
: a watery mixture of insoluble matter (such as mud, lime, or plaster of paris)
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Alexandria Sands, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
In the Nineties, the report became a staple in the bilious feedstock of right-wing militias, part of a slurry of propaganda that turned legitimate grievances into the conviction that FEMA agents in unmarked black helicopters were soon to enact a new world order.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The dock will be used by a small tugboat and a barge with equipment to vacuum sand and pump it through a pipe in a watery slurry onto the shoreline from Pine Avenue to just north of Cannon Road.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Some suggest the method of slaughtering an octopus — plunging them into an ice slurry — is also too cruel.
—Alexandria Sands, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
In the Nineties, the report became a staple in the bilious feedstock of right-wing militias, part of a slurry of propaganda that turned legitimate grievances into the conviction that FEMA agents in unmarked black helicopters were soon to enact a new world order.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The dock will be used by a small tugboat and a barge with equipment to vacuum sand and pump it through a pipe in a watery slurry onto the shoreline from Pine Avenue to just north of Cannon Road.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans:
Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Slurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slurry. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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