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Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“It’ll be slick as a car hood from the slime on their bellies,” Walters says.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Rights groups warn that children and teens are increasingly being recruited by these groups through slick social media campaigns.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

This pressure was the cue for ball-playing centre-backs to combine with nearby holding midfielders, using slick one-touch passing combinations before punching daring passes to their forwards.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

A monster clawed its way out...a glistening telkhine with slick fur, a seal-like body, and stunted human limbs.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Large stretches of the island's shoreline appear affected and "additional oil slicks extend far out to sea, further polluting and damaging this protected marine ecosystem", Noelle said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Oil has spilled into the Black Sea, creating slicks that cover several square miles of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The threat to desalination plants posed by missiles or possible oil slicks should also not be underestimated.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

Altogether, the color, flavor and textural differentiation is incredibly varied: briny, oily, herbaceous sauce slicks the crisped salmon, with the crunchy leeks providing another dimension of flavor and texture.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025

In the night, you couldn’t even see the oil slicks on the water.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

By 2015, as smartphones became ubiquitous, competitors like Resy, Tock, Reserve and SevenRooms pitched slicker apps for customers and iPad interfaces for restaurants, along with better business terms and access to diner data for establishments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Skiers have to re-don their skis at the top for one final climb, and Fatton was much slicker than Harrop, racing away to a lead she never looked likely to relinquish.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

“Happiness is slicker, bouncier. Joy is wider, deeper.”

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

The slicker, untacked balls used in Major League Baseball — unlike the pre-tacked balls Yamamoto used in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league — affected his typically devastating splitter command.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

A yellow rain slicker appeared at the window.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

But Alisson Cassiano would surely prefer not to be remembered for scoring one of football's slickest own goals.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

Back then, he walked into a humming, world championship–caliber operation, where everything had been optimized to the slickest, shiniest possible standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

What difference has the world’s biggest and slickest art fair organizer made?

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

To avoid conviction, she hires Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to help her dupe the public, media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by creating shocking headlines.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022

“That’s the slickest working thing I’ve ever seen. You’re right. If I ever get a monkey in it, he would sure be a caught monkey, wouldn’t he?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Eventually, Giuliani appears in the flesh, his blond hair slicked back like his father’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Googoosh appears as chic as ever with her signature honey-gold hair slicked to the side and impeccable Covergirl-worthy shimmery makeup that makes the 75-year-old look decades younger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

A childhood Liverpool fan, she used to run around the house in a replica shirt, her curly hair slicked back to resemble Spanish striker Fernando Torres.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

Willcox, who by now had been lent a sweater and some pants, insisted there had never been any bombs, only oxygen canisters and the diesel fuel that now slicked the water in the harbor.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Every time she tried to look at the spines, her eyes would slide from one side to the other, as though they were not made of leather and ink, but of glass slicked with oil.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

It's easy to see the oil slicking the surface and when I dip my hand in, it comes out streaked with oil.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

In winter, though, with black ice slicking the parking lot, he has no choice but to run the furnace.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

That extra fat fortifies them, slicking each tooth-like kernel so that it catches the gleam of the sun.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022

He was once described as looking like a mad scientist, though he began slicking his hair down after that.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2021

Outside, a fine rain has started to fall, misting the glassy cars and slicking the black pavement.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett