slide
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We slide into a pleather booth beneath burnt-orange walls and televisions playing Spanish-language fútbol.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
For Jenga, it was how to add weight to the tiny blocks to make sure they could stack well—players still need to use a toothpick to slide them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The energy consulting firm expects capacity to slide to 17.45 million barrels a day this year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The slide could sweep down to Spirit Lake, dam it to a high level. Mudflows would sluice down valley … the whole cracked north flank could slide.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Van Meter and her husband felt guilty throwing out their parents’ photo albums and boxes of slides even though they never looked at them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Also offered: a straw maze, pumpkin decorating, a petting zoo, giant rocking horses, slides and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"The charge a droplet acquires as it slides depends heavily on the specific surface -- we measured differences of up to a factor of ten," explains Zhongyuan Ni, the study's first author.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar to serve as Donald Trump's presidential jet experienced a takeoff delay Wednesday as inspectors checked one of its inflatable slides used for emergency evacuations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tano hangs up and slides the phone into his front jacket pocket, behind his kente-cloth square.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Raw or unadjusted jobless claims slid below 200,000 in mid-July and have remained under that threshold for 12 straight weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Yet the Russell 2000 has now slid 9% below its record close set less than two months ago, ending at 2,793.20 on Wednesday and putting the small-cap index on the doorstep of correction territory.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Word spread quickly, and soon a throng of smartphone-wielding citizens had surrounded the immigration enforcement van, which couldn’t move because one enterprising, early-arriving activist had slid underneath it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
On Wednesday, the Nasdaq composite gained 0.2% and the S&P 500 ticked down 0.3%, while the Dow industrials slid 0.9%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Grumbling and grunting, they slid into the water.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
“Like causes have produced like effects; and each island is little but the peak of a volcano, down whose shoulders lava and ash have slidden toward the sea.”
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
The slidden boat gave way And the black foamy water split—and met.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden by a perpetual backsliding?
From The Way to God and How to Find It by Dwight Lyman Moody
They called her the "dear child," for without any effort on her part she had slidden into their hearts and found a ready welcome in each sympathizing bosom.
From Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A large glass sliding door opens to yet another deck, which is just a stone’s throw away from the ocean.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
A major Mattel MAT 5.11%increase; up pointing triangle shareholder is calling for the toymaker to explore strategic alternatives, as the company deals with a sliding stock and now a chief-executive transition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Gold prices have faltered, falling back from record highs earlier this year and sliding further in recent months amid rising bond yields and rate-hike uncertainty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The automation and digitalisation of warfare leads to its gamification. This leads to degradation and sliding back of humanity to barbarity," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s like my eyes keep sliding over the paper without picking anything up.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
