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as in mud
soft wet earth he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots before going inside

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as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics

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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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verb

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Recent Examples of slush
Noun
The kind of thing that could wind up at the bottom of a development slush pile or remain unread forever. Chris Lee, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025 The snow has stopped falling in Houston, but all that slush and snow will refreeze tonight, the National Weather Service said. NBC News, 22 Jan. 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 See All Example Sentences for slush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush
Noun
  • Mountains of garbage are said to be visible from space and people have complained of seeing rats as big as cats in the refuse.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Apr. 2025
  • With the parent club, Davison has been stuck behind Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Payton Pritchard on the backcourt depth chart, limiting him to 15 mostly garbage-time appearances this season.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When polio workers came door-to-door in late April last year in his village of simple mud and brick houses, the child had a fever.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The hotel’s lobby bar and connected lounge spaces are filled with an impressive collection of African art, from masks to textiles like mud cloth sourced from Benin, the Congo, Ethiopia, and the Tuareg people.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Look for phrases like whole grain wheat, whole grain oats, whole grain corn and whole grain brown rice on the ingredients list.
    Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • One’s interest in any of these answers depends on a tolerance for corn and patience until the musical numbers.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After sampling a few local cheeses, visiting gastronomes can embark on an in-depth immersion into the region’s dairy industry with a trip to Ecoagroturismo Arqueixal, a small-scale operation that provides ample insight into the Galicia of yore.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The onion and cheese is baked at 400 degrees for 18 minutes or until everything forms a single, golden-brown layer.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Each machine has two or three spray arms, at least one on the bottom and one on the top: This is where the detergent-y water comes from.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Stock Hill, south of the Plaza 7 critical violations for a March 31 routine inspection 4800 Main St. Inside steakhouse’s kitchen, spray bottles full of chemicals were not marked with the name of the substance, according to the inspector.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The toxic sludge is often used as farm fertilizer, thus contaminating both the food chain and public drinking water.
    Carson Swick, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Instead of simply breaking down the sludge, the system turns it into something useful.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As a result of these reentries, however, the amount of space junk burning up in the upper layers of the atmosphere is increasing, which worries some atmospheric scientists.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • What about that wily junk dealer, or the creepy cemetery?
    Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025

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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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