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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
geyser .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The same core ingredients are present on "Down There," but instead of emerging geyserlike, they ooze and drip out, creating a sound that's filled with foreboding but stops just short of being sinister.
CD review 'Down There' by Avey Tare Post 2010
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The same core ingredients are present on "Down There," but instead of emerging geyserlike, they ooze and drip out, creating a sound that's filled with foreboding but stops just short of being sinister.
Album review: Avey Tare, "Down There" David Malitz 2010
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He compared it to BP's conduct in managing the geyserlike oil spill at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, which has called into question the company's pronouncements about its commitment to safety.
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He compared it to BP's conduct in managing the geyserlike oil spill at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, which has called into question the company's pronouncements about its commitment to safety.
Despite BP corporate code, firm has made political contributions 2010
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He compared it to BP's conduct in managing the geyserlike oil spill at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, which has called into question the company's pronouncements about its commitment to safety.
Despite BP corporate code, firm has made political contributions 2010
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She reached the bathroom just in time as the whiskey surged up, geyserlike, from her revolting stomach.
The Unforgiven Patricia MacDonald 1981
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But he discovered, some thirty yards to southward of the circle of stone posts, a boiling geyserlike pool in the rock floor, whence the thick steam continually arose, and which at times burst up in terrific seething.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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On top of the load, with the stock projecting well forward, I quite often was able to recognize old Suse, the ancient firearm of geyserlike proclivities.
Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone Emerson Hough 1890
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Was the emotion she had just witnessed -- flinging itself geyserlike into sight, only to sink back as swiftly out of ken -- was it an effect of the past or an omen of the future?
The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885
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He is, besides, brimful and spilling over with a quality of fun that is geyserlike in its spontaneity and intermittent flow.
The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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