as in to sip
to swallow in liquid form
tossed off the last of the medicine
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Or, simply spend your day lounging on the beach, swimming, snacking, and sipping cocktails until the sun dips below the horizon.—
Rana Good,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025 -
Another post showed Perez wearing a paper crown and sipping a slushy.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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For example, the Mayo Clinic still recommends drinking cranberry juice as a way to prevent UTIs, while the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases doesn’t.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
17 Mar. 2025
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Peterson has almost nothing in common with, say, Dave Portnoy, another mascot of the bro-sphere, who mostly just wants to be left alone to eat pizza and drink beer by the pool.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Slurp your bev up like a straw or tip the bottle back to gulp it down.—
Louryn Strampe,
WIRED,
22 Mar. 2025
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That would have been like the Celtics willingly trading, gulp, Paul Pierce to the Heat at one point.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) knocked back his challenge on Friday.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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President Yoon Suk-yeol’s attempt in December to seize undue power was knocked back by lawmakers’ swift action and a surge of popular outrage.—
ROBERT E. KELLY,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Toss (down or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toss%20%28down%20or%20off%29. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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