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as in splash
a very small amount
money doled out in driblets to the workers
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Noun
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Enjoy playscapes, a swimming pool, splash pads for the kids, sports fields Dillon Stadium and historic buildings.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2025 -
There’s also a splash pad and playground for the kids.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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Decant items like soap, laundry pods, dryer sheets, and scent-boosting beads. Cut out and save the safety information on your cleaning and laundry products before throwing out the plastic containers.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 July 2025
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Our girl on the town Ana Gutierrez rounded up a list of Austin bars and restaurants celebrating with crawfish boils, beads and brass bands.—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Zoé | 2024 | Canada | Rémi St-Michel | Midwest Premiere | The remaining shreds of Zoe’s mind desperately cling to her vague memories of better feelings.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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To date, despite all these ideas, there hasn’t been a single shred of solid evidence for the existence of axions, which naturally drops them down a peg or two on the credibility scale.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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Then Domokos and the chief engineer of the model spotted a glob of stray glue clinging to one of its vertices.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
25 June 2025
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There were globs of stuff coming out of me, like sheets of it.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 Apr. 2025
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Princess Anne topped the surprise style with the diamond Festoon Tiara, adding some glimmer with the sparkler she's owned since 1973.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
10 July 2025
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Ramos has been a glimmer of hope offensively, although his defense has room for improvement.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
4 July 2025
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Leaner cuts also reduce fat drips and flame flare-ups, which can contribute to carcinogen formation.—
Kathleen Ferraro,
Verywell Health,
3 July 2025
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With companies going where liquidity is abundant, a steady drip of firms being taken private, and too few initial public offerings coming along to replace them, pressure is mounting to reverse the slow but inexorable shrinking of London’s historic trading venue.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
3 July 2025
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On the side, there’s a salad of carrots, onions and peppers, a perfect scoop of white rice and a sprinkling of herbs.—
Kaitlyn Rosati,
New York Daily News,
2 July 2025
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Nonetheless, his asking out Brooks’s sister Chloe is the perfect sprinkling of drama to kick this show off.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 June 2025
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The last reported occurrence of human-to-human transmission was reported in 1924, according to the National Institutes of Health, and is typically spread through respiratory droplets.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Measles, a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease spread through respiratory droplets, was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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“Driblet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driblet. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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