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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
Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Let cold water drip from the faucet connected to pipes that are exposed outdoors or in unheated interior areas.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
The first is the visual design, which is utterly gorgeous from start to finish, dripping in Burton's signature style.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noun
After a seemingly endless drip feed of leaks and substantial rumors, today is finally the day.
—Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Let cold water drip from the faucet connected to pipes that are exposed outdoors or in unheated interior areas.
—Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
Automatic drip coffeemakers and single-cup brewers heat water and slowly drip over a filter filled with ground coffee beans.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
The first is the visual design, which is utterly gorgeous from start to finish, dripping in Burton's signature style.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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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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Thanks to its quilted design, the beads are distributed evenly and stay securely in place.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The actress wore a necklace with translucent beads, along with stacks of bracelets, several small earrings and a few glittering rings.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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Obviously, the market response was a yawn, though the release highlighted the unquestionable success of the auto and home appliance trade-in consumer subsidy programs, which is why it will be expanded by scale and scope in 2025.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The dark spots drew together and welled like a droplet of sweat, then ran down her wrist and fell to the carpet.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The most efficient ways to milk cows invariably send a plume of milk droplets into the air—and sanitizing equipment is cumbersome.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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At the end of the first song, a small red glob rained down from above.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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 1 Feb. 2025.
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