slick
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“It’ll be slick as a car hood from the slime on their bellies,” Walters says.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The party has in just two years built a slick press, marketing and social media operation.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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
Fight Agency is known for making some of the slick videos that helped propel Mamdani’s campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Akira’s feet went out from under her on the slick pool bottom instead, and—SPLASH—she got dunked in the chilly water.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Instead of fitting wet-weather tyres to Alonso's car as he pitted with the track half-wet, half-dry, they fitted slicks.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
His hair is longer than it used to be too, and he either lets it go wild or slicks it back.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
Sam Rockwell plays Frank, his slicker, more easygoing partner — he gives Cage’s tightly wound performance someone to ricochet off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Dr. Makary is slicker than a pharmaceutical salesman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
It was Bunny, all right, all six-foot-three of him, looming up behind me in a tremendous yellow rain slicker that came almost to his ankles.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
Liz Truss has acknowledged that she is not the slickest media performer and what some senior Tories describe as her "wooden" style could impact on her prospects.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022
“I know city slickers when I see ’em and them thar’s two of the slickest of ’em all.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Eventually, Giuliani appears in the flesh, his blond hair slicked back like his father’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the past year, performative masc competitions have appeared across the country, with lesbians — hair slicked back and carabiners dangling from their Carhartt jeans — showing off in front of leering crowds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
His black hair was slicked back, his face whitened with a cosmetic, and he carried a cocktail shaker.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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 this easy weeknight recipe, lime juice and a touch of soy sauce accentuate the citrusy, savory spice, especially once reduced to a sticky pan sauce for slicking pork chops.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 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
A few months ago, I noticed that the part of my hairline I’d been avoiding, relaxing, pushing, hiding, slicking back my entire life had quietly overtaken my timeline: sideburns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
I flipped open my compact, smoothing down my edges and slicking on another layer of clear cherry lip gloss.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
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