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as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids?
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as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth
discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush
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Recent Examples of slush
Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
Portions of Interstate 70 show mixed snow, ice, and slush.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020
When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
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Noun
Active weather is expected to complicate plans in several regions, with wintry mix and slush in parts of the Midwest and rain causing delays along the East Coast.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
Portions of Interstate 70 show mixed snow, ice, and slush.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain.
—Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020
When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush
Noun
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The plummeting property values bled Gary of tax revenue for roads, schools, street lights, firefighters, garbage pickup.—
Paige Williams,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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City government is closest to the needs of residents’ everyday lives – snow plowing, garbage pickup, street lights, road repair, public safety, sensible economic development for low property taxes.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near the Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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This time-lapse shows floodwater, mud and debris spilling into the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin, located near the Eaton Fire burn scar.—
Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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Afterward, a typical church lunch was served, with macaroni and cheese, corn pudding, and other carbohydrates.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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There are soups like stone crab and cream corn chowder as well as crab and avocado salad.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Photo by Mario Savoia/Shutterstock Tulips are as Dutch as Gouda cheese and wooden shoes.—
Chris Schalkx,
AFAR Media,
14 Feb. 2025
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The best Caesar dressing gets textural interest from cracks of peppercorn and nubs of Parmesan cheese.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appétit,
13 Feb. 2025
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Other footage from inside the mall showed damaged walls in the aftermath of the blast, with water spraying from broken pipes.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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But those perfect plants don’t grow that way without assistance; they are sprayed routinely with fungicides and insecticides, especially organophosphates, which kill insects by interfering with their nervous systems.—
Maryn McKenna,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2025
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
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There 100% would've been road bumps and conflicts, but not this agonizingly repetitive sludge.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The document indicated the waste may have included alum mud — a potentially radioactive sludge and byproduct of aluminum processing.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2024
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This event features photos with the Easter Bunny, baby goats, bunny bingo, Plinko, junk walk and more.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Marta cleaned the place out and furnished it with items from junk stores.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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