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as in flow
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as in beam
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as in to flow
to move in a stream
blood streaming out of a wound
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as in to drift
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
cars streaming along the freeway
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Recent Examples of stream
Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Max subscription plans begin at $9.99 a month with ads, which allows users to stream on up to two devices at one time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Fox News provides a steady stream of pro-Trump commentary in prime time and there is no reason to believe the president’s daughter-in-law will divert from that approach.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
The big advance is a doubling of the MU-MIMO streams, to 16.
—PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
So we’re left with Section 31, a Star Trek: Discovery spinoff film currently streaming on Paramount+.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Max subscription plans begin at $9.99 a month with ads, which allows users to stream on up to two devices at one time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stream
Noun
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Such intense rainfall, especially when combined with rain that had fallen earlier in the week, poses of risk of causing rivers to rise and flood.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Hindus believe that a third, mythical river called the Saraswati joins the other two there in a sacred confluence.—
Atul Loke,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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That coincided with the Thomas fire and devastating Montecito debris flow that followed.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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Stopping the flow of fentanyl across the United States’s southern and northern borders was a plank of President Donald Trump‘s 2024 campaign platform.—
Gabrielle M. Etzel,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
6 Feb. 2025
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On the center pier — a vertical support structure — five out of the six timber beams showed severe decay.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Feb. 2025
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At the time, fewer than 100 residents lived in this remote Inupiat village, where remnants of sod houses built with whale ribs for beams still stood.—
Scott Haugen,
Outdoor Life,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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But if there are any crusty bits, try pouring coarse salt in there and going at it with a Tawashi scrubber, which has soft bristles that whisk away any detritus.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appétit,
6 Feb. 2025
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In one in particular, Jay-Z is gleefully pouring SirDavis, a whiskey brand launched by Beyonce in 2024, into her Grammy award.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
6 Feb. 2025
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But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Surreal images from the novel that could easily have looked silly on screen—a rivulet of blood winds its way across town, from the home where a character dies to his family’s abode, for example—retain their poetic profundity.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
2 Dec. 2024
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The female thrashed her tail, letting her emerald scales break the current’s surface.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Feb. 2025
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The work spans more than a decade and offers a solid journey through how this current of art has flowed.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It is also thought to have occurred in one species of ray.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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This means that finding one in your swimming pool or catching rays on your dock or sunning itself on a boat ramp is becoming increasingly common in the Keys and elsewhere in South Florida.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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That episode led to the diversion of the Turia watercourse, which meant that a large part of the city was spared of these floods.—
Teresa Medrano,
The Christian Science Monitor,
1 Nov. 2024
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The flash floods battered regions like Barrio de la Torre in Valencia, where narrow streets became lethal watercourses.—
Nina Turner,
Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2024
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“Stream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stream. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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