slick
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He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
While Ireland improved in the second half, head coach Andy Farrell will rue an error-riddled opening 40 minutes which left his side chasing a slick and cohesive All Blacks unit.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
With his slick black hair and steely gaze, he was practically born for the part.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
What began as a trickle of oil in April expanded into a slick operation freeing massive amounts of oil and alleviating one of the worst shocks to energy markets in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The glacier was covered with slick ice and sweeping snowdrifts and deep crevasses.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
On local Telegram chat groups, people shared photos of oil slicks in the sea, black puddles on the road and stray animals covered in oily droplets.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
The threat to desalination plants posed by missiles or possible oil slicks should also not be underestimated.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Delpique is over six feet tall and slicks his dark hair straight back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
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
The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
For one thing, the local spots are much slicker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
When the day was over and he was upstairs taking off his boots and slicker, he saw the old man from the generator room and went to talk to him.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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
Undo the tight, slicked back bun and bring in halo dyed hair, dark eyeliner and the piercing she did herself on the inside of her upper lip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 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
Her black hair was in a tight ponytail, slicked with hair spray.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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
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
He felt the sweat beading on his forehead, slicking his hands; he was terrified to keep going.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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