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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
Lisa Hajjar, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Roads course with a stream of mostly electric vehicles, all with their distinct, green license plates.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Morris was most recently CEO of Adweek after serving in the same role for streaming audio platform TuneIn.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
In the early years of his presidency, there was a slow stream of transfers, mostly people who had been cleared for release long ago and were freed.
—Lisa Hajjar, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Roads course with a stream of mostly electric vehicles, all with their distinct, green license plates.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
More than 3,000 hits and 19 seasons later, the biggest baseball names from his land are now streaming across the sea.
—Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Morris was most recently CEO of Adweek after serving in the same role for streaming audio platform TuneIn.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stream
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Heavy snow, totaling 6-10 inches, fell over the New Orleans metropolitan area, the river parishes and areas of northern bayou parishes extending to the Northshore.—
Brandon Girod,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Seeing no other escape, Taylah jumps into the river, managing to dodge the next few bullets that the biker fires off.—
Rebecca Iannucci,
TVLine,
22 Jan. 2025
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Groups that want to reduce immigration have also argued that restricting the flow of immigrants would put upward pressure on wages, benefiting American workers who might then take caregiving jobs.—
Emily Alpert Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Urinary incontinence: Untreated bladder cancer can lead to an inability to control the flow of urine.—
Steffini Stalos,
Health,
25 Jan. 2025
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At relativistic speeds — that is near the speed of light — time moves more slowly, which would mean the electron beam wouldn't have enough time to spread out, keeping the beam focused.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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At that moment, a bright white beam of sunlight came in through the porthole and struck Audrey’s left eye.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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However, sticking to her overall intention with the film, Berg draws a line between this technical skill and Buckley’s ethereal spirit, which, having been raised by a single mother, contained both masculine and feminine features and poured love onto others with reckless abandon.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Reactions from social media poured in after the video hit the internet, with most netizens singing the exact same tune.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
24 Jan. 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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Ice jams that block the river in winter start breaking up in spring, flooding the area behind it and creating a powerful current that can wreak havoc on the riverbanks.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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Besides basic forward, up, and down movements, the Super Sub can also move laterally, which gives it more precise handling on approaching objects like reefs or wrecks, or in a current.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 2025
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Sun rays reflect light off the underwater quartz particles, making the sand shine upwards onto the water’s surface and creating that signature crystal-clear emerald shade.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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Zuckerman and her husband sat in Palisades Park atop the Santa Monica bluffs on Sunday, catching some warm California rays.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
14 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 31 Jan. 2025.
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