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as in to flow
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops
water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor the cracked bottle dripped wine
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Recent Examples of drip
Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
However, many farmers are using another method for their new groves called drip irrigation, which delivers the water directly to the plant.
—Berenice Garcia, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer.
—David Newcomb, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Conservation efforts, such as installing drip irrigation and precision laser leveling, are underway, supported by the Imperial Irrigation District (IID)—the largest irrigation district in the nation.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
However, many farmers are using another method for their new groves called drip irrigation, which delivers the water directly to the plant.
—Berenice Garcia, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
Cinnamon Melts Hotcakes are good and all, but nothing beats a squishy mini cinnamon roll dripping with cream-cheese icing.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer.
—David Newcomb, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drip
Noun
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And one of the truly terrible things about depression is its power to turn you into a bore.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Other posts recommend alternating buckshot rounds with normal bullets to clear the bore of plastic residue from the sleeve which may otherwise clog up the barrel, or alternating with tracer rounds to improve aiming.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
10 Dec. 2024
Noun
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These beads open a window into ancient trade routes and the cultural significance of amber in the region.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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The beads come in so many beautiful colors, like turquoise, orange, purple, and white.—
Jacquelyn Smith,
Parents,
31 Jan. 2025
Verb
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When temperatures started heating up, ice caps began melting, causing water from the Appalachian Mountains to flow into the Apalachicola River and eventually all the way down to the coast.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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Money flowed away from tanks and submarines and went instead to hospitals and pensions.—
Josh Holder,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Melania Trump was seen stifling a yawn and shifting around to stay alert.—
Michelle Stoddart,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2025
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The announcement of an accompanying short-film tie-in for an album tends to generate a yawn outside communities whose goal is boosting everything a favorite artist releases.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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My citrus plant is getting ready to bloom, but there are clear droplets on several flower cluster bases.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2025
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As that light passes through the water droplets suspended in the air, it is broken up into the component colors called the visible spectrum – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, more easily remembered as ROY G. BIV.—
Daniel Freedman,
The Conversation,
20 Jan. 2025
Verb
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However, sticking to her overall intention with the film, Berg draws a line between this technical skill and Buckley’s ethereal spirit, which, having been raised by a single mother, contained both masculine and feminine features and poured love onto others with reckless abandon.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Reactions from social media poured in after the video hit the internet, with most netizens singing the exact same tune.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, two members of the Oilers’ ice crew had to come onto the ice to pick up the rest of the chips and scrape the globs of cheese off the ice.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
Verb
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As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began trickling out on social media.—
James Kendra,
The Conversation,
20 Jan. 2025
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With money now trickling in, the next step was attaching a director.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Drip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drip. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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