swashing
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Moist environments such as gut mucus, wound fluids, or the urinary tract provide surfaces where bacteria could spread through swashing, even when their flagella are not functioning effectively.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
The swashing effect begins when bacteria consume fermentable sugars such as glucose, maltose, or xylose.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
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 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
A miscellaneous lot of wreckage was swashing in the surf at the base of the point, and Jim and some of the crew were salvaging what they could; but it was not very much.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
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