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spilled

  • past participle
    of spill.
    spill
    verb (used with object)
    to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully.
  • past tense form
    of spill.
    spill
    verb (used with object)
    to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully.

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The range and scope of ongoing litigation show how anger at Meta and other social media companies over their products’ effects on kids has spilled into broad bipartisan agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

I’ve been heartened by the throngs of people gathered in multiplexes, even if it means the floors are extra sticky from spilled soda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Fighting between Myanmar's military and myriad rebel factions has spilled over the long border with Thailand, which hosts millions of refugees from Myanmar.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Callais, dismantling the work that thousands of activists had spilled blood, sweat, and tears over.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Much ink has been spilled by several generations of scholars in an effort to determine who wrote the bulk of the words that eventually found their way into print and then into the history books.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis