ooze
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"I was so red, my skin was so tight, then it would flake, then it would ooze, and then the cycle would begin again."
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
Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
With that, he lowered himself into the ooze and, pushing heavy debris aside with every labored step, searched frantically for his mother and brother.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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