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More notable than the volume of Friday’s expiration is the heavy slant toward puts.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The play, a lethal slant that the Crimson Tide called “Shortie,” had once enabled Jones to become the most devastating wideout in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

That is just solid legal analysis that really should not have a partisan or ideological slant.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2026

Jordan touched the ball six times, and Maiava completed all five of his passes, capping a seamless 11-play drive by hitting a wide open Ja’Kobi Lane in the end zone on a two-yard slant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

By the time the sun angled low enough to slant its rays under the citadel’s outspread wings, it had gone beyond the edge of the Cusp, and only traded one shadow for another.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Johnny and his sidekick, Ed McMahon, gave adults a relaxing reprieve from the stresses of everyday living by offering light humor without any negative slants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Nobody knows post production like Kelce, who also runs crisp slants, hitches and go routes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

PragerU also has materials that avoid partisan slants, including videos explaining the Electoral College and the offices of the president and vice president.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023

Ward, though, doesn’t want to just toss slants to those guys.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

The late afternoon had come and the sun made long, yellow slants through the window.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The protected vistas have forced modern developers to shave the tops off skyscrapers or adopt slanted silhouettes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Other options underscored how slanted the questionnaire were: “trophy wife/rich partner, never working,” “ultra-successful, independent, famous —even if single” and “partnered, childfree, building a creative career, traveling together.”

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

The plan, which was heavily slanted towards Moscow's demands, was subsequently revised.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

“I like to poke people,” said Biggers, sitting in the shade on a recent afternoon eating quiche at a restaurant, his cane, which helps him walk after a hip replacement, slanted on a chair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

The exterior walls of the old, square cabin were unpainted plywood, and the part of the flat, slanted roof that was still standing was covered with black tar paper.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Soldiers cordoned off the area before using dynamite to blast the first ruined building apart -- a 12-story residential tower that had partially collapsed and was slanting toward the street.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The slanting sides of the work appear as a yawing, rusted ship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The slanting afternoon light lends his ascent a spooky, otherworldly glow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

As summer progresses, the dangling seed heads fade to a warm straw and are beautiful when backlit in the slanting light of autumn.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

“Photographs taken by means of slanting light show clearly the roughening and raising of the fibres of the paper about the date due to mechanical erasure,” the examiner wrote.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann