swashing
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It also hints that surfactants might someday be used to control bacterial movement depending on whether microbes are swashing or swarming.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Because swashing depends on fermentation and acidic by products, altering factors such as surface pH or sugar levels could limit bacterial growth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Without them, bacteria cannot produce the fluid flows needed for swashing.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Because at one point there’s a drawing on the page of what sword swashing looks like—just a crazy scribble, like at the end of a fancy old time signature.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2016
Even at that moment small Methuselah was swashing it with a great mop, which dripped more water than it wiped up.
From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn
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