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slushing

verb

present participle of slush

as in spraying

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Combatting it typically requires spraying synthetic fungicides from large tractors, which is expensive and harmful to farmworkers, soil, and wine quality.

— Matt Alderton, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Yet after spraying the stuff up his nose for just three days, KFF notes the peptide user fell seriously ill.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of spraying

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After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.

— Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
In a secluded bubble away from the city, Stephen Miller’s wife treats Washington’s most powerful to custom cakes, live donkeys, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

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Huberman occasionally mentions other potential peptide risks, like cancer, sprinkling them into advice on how to take them.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
At Waxwork, the band got to make the vinyl themselves by sprinkling the dust onto the wax and pressing it.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of sprinkling

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The restrictions limited customers across the city and some of its suburbs to watering twice a week and imposed higher billing rates that kicked in as customers used more water.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026
These had worked adequately for isolated farmers, but too many could overwhelm the absorptive capacity of the ground—especially if sprinklers were watering the lawns—causing effluent to rise to the surface or enter waterways.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of watering

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