let slip
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Usha Vance let slip on Meghan McCain’s podcast that she isn’t exactly happy about giving up her job.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Not realising they were audible even leaning out of windows or in the garden, the prisoners let slip secrets, including details of the development of the first ballistic missiles, V-2s.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
In an interview with biographer Michael D’Antonio, Trump let slip that one of his favorite songs of all time was a schmaltzy piano ballad recorded by the late, great Peggy Lee.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
When one Artemis II crew member let slip in a press conference that he was bringing an iPhone to get mesmerizing photos of Earth, he caught himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
These things were you, now there is no connection whatever; the sorrow within me is not for this body which has suffered and in suffering has let slip the spirit, but for you, my son.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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