spit up

as in to vomit
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth the baby finished nursing and promptly spit up

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Recent Examples of spit up After the birth, Curtis became alarmed when her daughter spit up a bit of blood. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025 The baby was seen spitting up all over himself afterward. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025 Some babies developed symptoms such as spitting up and diarrhea after being forced to switch brands, researchers found. Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 4 Apr. 2025 The nine-year veteran left Monday’s 27-9 playoff victory over the Minnesota Vikings with a chest contusion that, after spitting up blood, required a trip to an Arizona hospital. Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spit up
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  • Then, the other person came into the store and told her Jose was vomiting blood, according to the court records.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
  • Without the compounds in ayahuasca that slow the breakdown of DMT in your body—or the ones that notoriously make ayahuasca drinkers vomit—the substance flashes through the brain at turbo speed.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
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  • Case in point: While flying back home to New York after visiting her sister in Los Angeles, her son threw up for the first time in his life—in the middle of a flight.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2025
  • Some of this could be coming from a place of a fanbase that has thrown up its collective hands at the franchise.
    Jared Wyllys, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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  • Demonstrators blocked the 101 Freeway, set self-driving cars ablaze and hurled incendiary devices — and, in some cases, chunks of concrete — at law enforcement officers.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • Jackie Chan is one of the greatest stuntmen ever, mostly for his willingness to hurl himself into extreme danger and his ability to keep delivering his lines afterward – not to mention basically inventing the Kung Fu comedy genre.
    Joe Salas June 07, New Atlas, 7 June 2025

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“Spit up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spit%20up. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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