as in to drip
to flow forth slowly through small openings a sticky resin exudes from the bark of the tree

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Recent Examples of exude The city exudes history and culture at every turn – from its charming old town center to its beautiful beaches, lively concerts, and vibrant atmosphere. Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Always down to gossip and party, Redmond exudes Gemini's energy through his zesty and sarcastic attitude. Lisa Stardust, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Real de Catorce San Luis Potosí Once a thriving silver mining town in the 19th century, this town exudes nostalgia with its crumbling yet elegant colonial buildings and stark desert landscape. Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 28 Mar. 2025 Remington: This British name just exudes a sense of sophistication. Lydia Wang, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exude
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  • Those morning drip coffees and lattes are going to cost more.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The team's modeling showed that the craton dripped when the Farallon Plate was present in the mantle; when the plate was removed from the calculations, the dripping stopped.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • Scorpio: Meredith Palmer and Creed Bratton The creeper of The Office simply oozing with mystery, Creed Bratton, has many secrets and this is a quality of Scorpio, but is also weirdly honest about some of his strange behaviors, bordering on being inappropriate.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Blood can still ooze from a wound, even when it’s not being pumped through the body.
    Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
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  • Some of those holes were quite small, about the size of a piece of paper, but water could nonetheless seep in and eventually flood the compartments.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • No one teaches them how to run the weatherproofing paper over the metal flashing to prevent water from seeping into a gable’s frame.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The liquor flows so freely that the rest room nearly becomes a vomitorium.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.
    Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • In recent years, a third limitation has been percolating through physics—in some ways the most dramatic yet.
    Charlie Wood, Wired News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders See All The Husbands, with Temple attached, has been percolating for awhile.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • As the Huskies wept and danced and held each other on the court Sunday, Ducharme kept imagining how much Zittoun would have loved being part of the celebration.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Victoria The triumphant expression on her face as Piper weeps at breakfast: just sensational.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • His time at Ralph Lauren bleeds into the exquisite construction of the pieces Chavarria designs presently.
    Essence, Essence, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Symptoms of the condition can include shortness of breath, a sudden drop in blood pressure, an abnormal heart rate, and bleeding from the uterus, C-section, or IV sites.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Apr. 2025

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