ooze
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"My skin was hot, so inflamed and red. It began to crack and ooze, and the itch was bone deep. It consumed my whole body, and then it began to consume my whole life."
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
But nearly two years later, water started to ooze from a different well in the same area, a sign that bottling up the geyser likely repressurized the subsurface and triggered the new outburst, scientists said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
When under stress, the ropes ooze tar, which attracts bees.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025
A producer, her thumbprints evident in a track’s chic minimalism or ooze of West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
And that night the others lying on the floor in their squares watched Hughie ooze gracefully into his cot—they heard him sigh with abysmal comfort and he was asleep and snoring before anyone else.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing ooze
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