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The water droplet did disperse quickly and evenly, though, suggesting that the material is still very moisture-wicking—a good quality for hot sleepers.
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Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
This typically happens when infected respiratory droplets are released into the air when a sick person talks, sings, sneezes or coughs.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 June 2025
With low porosity, the water droplets may sit on the hair's surface for a few seconds before soaking in.1
Float Test
Another option for determining your hair's porosity is using the float test.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 June 2025
Similarly, the returning radar bounce from a rain droplet or piece of tornadic debris that is moving toward the emitter will have a shorter wavelength than the pulse that was sent out, and the signal from an object moving away from the radar will have a longer wavelength.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
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Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
This typically happens when infected respiratory droplets are released into the air when a sick person talks, sings, sneezes or coughs.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 June 2025
With low porosity, the water droplets may sit on the hair's surface for a few seconds before soaking in.1
Float Test
Another option for determining your hair's porosity is using the float test.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 4 June 2025
Similarly, the returning radar bounce from a rain droplet or piece of tornadic debris that is moving toward the emitter will have a shorter wavelength than the pulse that was sent out, and the signal from an object moving away from the radar will have a longer wavelength.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for droplet
Noun
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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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As Moroney finished her set, the fans already seated on blankets or craning their necks to see the stage were also the ones braving the humidity—marking the moment with the last sip of their first tall boy and the first beads of sweat breaking through the day’s heat.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Both phones use Samsung’s Enhanced Armor Aluminium frame and take advantage of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 to protect the display from drops and scratches.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 July 2025
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The drop was even starker among Republicans, with that change from 88 to 48 percent — nearly cut in half — in the space of a year.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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“Droplet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droplet. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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