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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
Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
In the past few years, artists have been using the occasion of Spotify’s Wrapped to share how little they were paid for the year’s streams.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
The event streams on ESPN+, with prelims starting at 9 a.m. ET and the main card at 12 noon ET.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Noun
He's involved in local politics, so a constant stream of guajiros pass by to discuss their problems.
—Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
In the past few years, artists have been using the occasion of Spotify’s Wrapped to share how little they were paid for the year’s streams.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
All seven episodes of Squid Game Season Two are now streaming.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
The event streams on ESPN+, with prelims starting at 9 a.m. ET and the main card at 12 noon ET.
—Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The rules took effect last week as the federal Bureau of Reclamation approved the plan and the supporting biological opinions, which determine how much water can be pumped and how river flows are managed in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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The river valley was also home to the Burnham Brickyard, per UW-Milwaukee, which was the city’s largest and longest running manufacturer of the bricks.Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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Strong currents and large debris can threaten pleasure craft safety during high flows.Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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This might involve techniques like distributed tracing to understand the end-to-end flow of transactions, real-time anomaly detection to identify emerging trends and patterns, and incident response to quickly diagnose and mitigate issues.Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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The 14-point buck had five distinct drop tines, although two are technically main beams that curve downward, and the rack had an inside spread of nearly 20 inches.Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Dec. 2024
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This intense beam of photons changes the optical absorption of the glass, generating a small plasma of ionized glass atoms which melt the glass sheets together.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2024
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Millions of letters and packages poured in from families.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
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Then, in a 180-degree turn, an improved defensive effort helped fuel their recent run of strong play — the team simply pouring more energy into that area of the court.Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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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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Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Strong currents and large debris can threaten pleasure craft safety during high flows.Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Over 90 percent of Antarctic icebergs end up floating in a clockwise-flowing current called the Weddell Gyre, skirting along the eastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula just as A-23A initially did.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Shiseido is working to future proof its suncare using molecules extracted from the cell membrane of bacteria to filter out the harmful rays of the sun.Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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View 2 Images Although sunscreen does help protect our skin from the sun's harmful UV rays, it isn't designed to keep that skin cool.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
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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 30 Dec. 2024.
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