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as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
how can you stand to read that slush in the tabloids?
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as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth
discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush
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Recent Examples of slush
Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
But while the streets were lined with slush, designers kept the snow off their runways.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2025
Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020
When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
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Noun
On a snowy Thursday night, the 75th annual Berlin Film Festival launched with some heat — thanks to fiery speeches about politics — as film executives, European buyers and movie stars trekked through the slush to celebrate cinema.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
But while the streets were lined with slush, designers kept the snow off their runways.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain.
—Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020
When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush
Noun
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Allegiance The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, regroups on the garbage planet Anoat, while Finn and Poe go on a secret mission to retrieve a weapons cache to increase their dwindling arsenal.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
25 May 2025
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Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.—
John Michael Pierobon,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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In a reply to another comment, the U.S. Geological Survey explained that the eruption appeared dark in color due to mud that had settled at the bottom of the pool.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
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The absence of snow and permafrost posed serious risks to the sled dogs, including potential injuries from mud and exposed terrain.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Cream Corn Shucking corn is one of the messiest kitchen tasks there is, nevertheless, Southerners persist, because cream corn is one of the most blissful summer dishes.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
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This week, the pizzeria is phasing out springtime asparagus, introducing a juicy corn topping with poblano chile, red onion, cilantro, lime and three cheeses on one pie.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
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Add the shredded cheese towards the end to help prevent the cheese from breaking.—
Jasmine Smith,
Southern Living,
1 June 2025
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This week, the pizzeria is phasing out springtime asparagus, introducing a juicy corn topping with poblano chile, red onion, cilantro, lime and three cheeses on one pie.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Use a hose with moderate water pressure (not a power washer) to spray the whole thing down, clearing away cobwebs or other detritus that might have accumulated.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
3 June 2025
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Cops said the attacker approached the 33-year-old driver and sprayed her in the face on May 19 around 8:40 a.m. inside a BX10 bus at Bainbridge Ave.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
1 June 2025
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2025
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Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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And there are the old pitfalls of the technology that anyone above a certain age remembers: blurry pages, junk faxes that pile up and faxes getting sent to the wrong number.—
Tamsin Gable,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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In 2018, inspired by this culture of bricolage, curator Danni Friedman and designer Jean Lee gathered a group of designers in Havana for a ten-day workshop, turning them loose in an old shipyard factory filled with clay, concrete mix, scrap metal, and assorted junk.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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