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dripping

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verb

present participle of drip
as in flowing
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor the cracked bottle dripped wine

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Adjective
  • Recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans say that Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils, cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables and limit sugars, sodium and saturated fats.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Americans should strive to eat less meat and saturated fats, while upping their intake of fiber-rich legumes, fruits and vegetables, according to new recommendations issued Tuesday by a panel of nutrition experts.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Venture funding has begun pouring back into crypto.
    Rob Toews, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • But, in the tumult of the snap election, dubious and outright vile comments came pouring forth.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Some wet weather could impact parts of the East on Christmas Day.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Their warm and wet climates couldn’t produce the brawny horses needed for their cavalries.
    David Chaffetz, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Chief among them are efforts to train crews to identify and treat an overdose and a push to saturate fleets with naloxone, the opioid antagonist, commonly administered as a nasal spray under the trade name Narcan, that can reverse overdoses and retrieve a fading patient from a mortal slide.
    C.J. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • To give the vinegar a longer working time, saturate paper towels and press them against the glass like wallpaper.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • Trucks travel through a flooded road while exiting from an Amazon delivery station in Carlstadt, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Rescuers in Atlanta used boats to reach residents stranded in flooded areas.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Dripping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dripping. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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