as in saliva
the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands
slaver dripped from the snarling dog's jaws
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WIRED, 24 June 2023
Not backed up by the whole of law enforcement, mind you, because otherwise, there’d be no story, no slavering depictions of depravity, no waltz into the abyss and no righteous body count.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
At times, slavers bypassed tricks altogether, arriving under the cover of night to ambush a village and kidnap its inhabitants.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Verb
It’s aided in this by the natural grandeur of its painterly environments, which, even when littered with dead bodies and slavering monsters, create an imperative to preserve a fictional world that extends beyond exposition about the importance of doing so.
—WIRED, 24 June 2023
Not backed up by the whole of law enforcement, mind you, because otherwise, there’d be no story, no slavering depictions of depravity, no waltz into the abyss and no righteous body count.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
Noun
Yes, Aida is an old-fashioned blockbuster, a tale of bloodthirsty slavers, desert vendettas, and love amid the pyramids.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
At times, slavers bypassed tricks altogether, arriving under the cover of night to ambush a village and kidnap its inhabitants.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaver
Verb
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There’s a reason scouts once drooled over Williams’ potential.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Symptoms from scorpion stings — such as burning at the sting site, drooling.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The participants then chewed each type of gum for four minutes—and some for an extra 20 minutes—while researchers collected saliva samples at various points.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
1 Apr. 2025
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Ducky was trained by the M.D. Dogs Inc. program, which teaches dogs to smell high and low blood sugars through saliva samples.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics performance using GDI, 3D graphics performance using OpenGL, and disk speed (broken into four sub-benchmarks for sequential and random read and write performance).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
31 Mar. 2025
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While the software does issue a disclaimer before spitting out its design, seemingly to avoid trademark issues, some fair-use hawks are not convinced.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The combination has led fans to salivate about what Flagg might do next.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps no company has been more aggressive in that push than Disney, where executives are already salivating for a 2027 that will kick off with the College Football Championship, the Grammys, the Super Bowl and the Oscars all within a three month window.—
Alex Weprin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Slaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaver. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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