as in to rinse
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse
he sluiced the gutters with lots of water in order to make sure they were clear
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Recent Examples of sluice
Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
Spanish cinema is sluiced by a winning sense of genre, movies hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
The advanced technology along with deep learning algorithms is in this way helping to throw open the sluice gates to data thus empowering everyone to engage with it and better understand it.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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Verb
Trump and Biden are running for President in an era of infinite expressivity, a time in which words themselves are cheap, sluicing around the Internet, dribbling from humans as well as bots and A.I. programs: words of uncertain truth-value, words that sometimes don’t even make sense.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
Spanish cinema is sluiced by a winning sense of genre, movies hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
What looked in early November like dry, barren land of baobab and thorny acacia was regenerated by annual summertime overflows over the floodplain, the eponymous waalo, and filled the sluices cut into the earth to deliver water to the fields.
—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
The advanced technology along with deep learning algorithms is in this way helping to throw open the sluice gates to data thus empowering everyone to engage with it and better understand it.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sluice
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Once absorbed by the skin, the remaining mud is rinsed off in a lavish Vichy shower, and afterward skin is soothed with an aloe gel mask.Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Finish by rinsing with water and drying the area with a clean cloth.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
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In a Dutch oven or soup pot, cook the ground beef and onion, breaking the beef into crumbles, until beef is no longer pink; drain.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Due to worries about invasive species, the California Natural Resources Agency asks for people to clean, drain and dry boats and equipment every time they’re removed from water.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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The company plans to invest in expanding its production capacity, including the development of a new egg washing and packing facility in Seymour, Indiana.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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After being washed, these sheets retained their luxurious look and feel and didn’t develop any visible wear and tear.Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2024
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All About Tiana's Bayou Adventure, Disney’s Upcoming Princess and The Frog Ride The basic components of the flume ride remain, including its famous 50-foot drop.Staff Author, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
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There were long lines Sunday for the Giant Wheel, the log flume and other popular rides as people used the last of ride tickets many had bought earlier in the year, thinking Wonderland would go on forever.Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
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This technique flushes any salts that may have accumulated in the potting mixture from past fertilizing and saturates the roots.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2024
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The beginning of the pandemic in 2020 flushed out some of the remaining weakest chains like Sears, JCPenney, Pier 1 and others that filed for bankruptcy and closed stores.Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
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Since May, Liccardo and Low have duked it out on the campaign trail as millions of dollars flooded the race despite it not being one of California’s key battleground races.Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The intrigue: Big donors are flooding Pennsylvania with cash, and much of the attention is on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey's fight to keep his seat.Alexa Mencia, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Sluice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluice. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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