slime
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The rise of pink slime comes amid a rapid decline of local newspapers, many of which have either shut down or suffered extensive layoffs due to economic headwinds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
“It’ll be slick as a car hood from the slime on their bellies,” Walters says.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
There isn’t a lot of wit involved in imagining what orange slime could do to a location, and a lot of veteran talent gets thrown into the service of a lot of kindergarten humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Glow worms, slime moulds and rare lichens are among 1,109 species discovered in just one corner of Scotland's rainforest.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Man, they can hardly get him loose, the way he's stuck deep in that mud, and before they drag him to shore they're all covered with slime and mud.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
To this day, many biological slimes haven’t been researched enough to know the details of their structure and behavior.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2023
The slime room housed a “bunch of slimes she had made, a bunch of slimes she bought and then a bunch of things that, like, make slime,” Ellie says.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
It's a pure troll, meant to be so beyond the pale that even responding to it slimes the person falsely accused.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
But those metabolic pathways would not have worked well in the Sun-soaked shallow waters in which the slimes lived.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022
It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
In his lead single for the album, the musician used a photo of Halle Berry being slimed at the Kids Choice Awards without her consent.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023
Besides the virtual slime cannons in the end zones, there will be a slime booth at AT&T Stadium on Sunday where Prescott or Garoppolo can get slimed if they are so inclined.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
Some critics who caught the movie, which turned up at New York Comic Con in October, reacted as if they’d been slimed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
It was an honor and a privilege to be slimed, and so slime fit well with Nickelodeon's overall “kids first” brand.
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017
The steps were slimed with moss and difficult to climb, and I had to go slowly or risk falling.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Mr. Parnell, a decorated Army veteran of the war in Afghanistan, has denied wrongdoing and called on his rival to quit the GOP primary race for sliming his family.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
“They’re quick. They’re meditative. From the whispering to the slurping to the sliming to the folding. This is entirely tactile work to this entire generation that’s entirely screenal.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2018
But basic cable package viewers at home were immune to the smell, and the response from people who saw the sliming was overwhelmingly positive.
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017
The beast’s green tongue rasped across her visor, sliming the lower section.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
