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[spray] / spreɪ /




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Storm Boelo will bring wet and windy weather across the whole of the UK on Saturday with poor travelling conditions expected due to surface water and spray on faster roads and motorways.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

U.S. farmers are increasingly utilizing drones to spray their farmland, says the American Farm Bureau Federation in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Several then entered, one spray painting an anarchist "A" symbol on an inside wall, before police intervened to disperse them.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“I could taste the spray in my mouth when I used it, and it felt heavy in my lungs,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Torak wiped the spray from his face, and wondered how anything in the Forest could be this angry.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

People might see cleaners and sprays on supermarket shelves and not look twice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Those halos can indicate sprays of regolith thrown outward by a fresh impact.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Buying candles, diffusers and room sprays "can help create a warm, cosy atmosphere, especially as we move into the colder months".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

A former electrical engineer who moved from his native Kentucky to take a defense job, Montgomery founded the company in 2023 with an eye toward getting pesticide sprays out of suburban yards.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Hot tea sprays everywhere, and a few stinging drops land on my ankles.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

A bunch of Bahraini-related activities are being held at the track, while the trophy presented will be the Bahrain Grand Prix trophy and rosewater rather than champagne will be sprayed on the podium.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Scented cleaners release terpenes when fragrance compounds evaporate from sprayed droplets or cleaned surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

A woman sprayed each of us with rose essential oil to help with grounding.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In Stourbridge near the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

I was like a dog that would go fetch Ms. W.’s stick, even if it was in a snake’s hole under a thorn bush that had just been sprayed by a skunk.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

But as COVID-19 spread, they began spraying the concentrated solution across wide areas, “directly into the air and on all types of surfaces,” the lawsuit said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Routine tasks such as mopping floors, spraying countertops, and wiping surfaces with scented products generate billions or trillions of particles, with the total depending on the product.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In Barcelona—which last year received nine times as many tourists as it has residents—protesters took to spraying water on tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In the southern city of Yangsan, where the mercury hit a historic high of 42.5C on Sunday, fleets of sprinkler trucks have been roaming the streets, spraying water onto sun-baked roads.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Nearby, a wave crashed, spraying mist high into the air, and a rainbow briefly appeared above the gathering.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown


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