slime
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Uddin's photographs explore the miniature world of slime moulds, organisms that can be barely visible to the naked eye and whose fruiting structures are just one to two millimetres high.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The broad category also includes organisms such as kelp, slime molds, and red algae, some of which grow into large, complex structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
NewsGuard has identified 21 pink slime outlets that launched this year, bringing the total number of such sites to 1,179.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Parents who have watched their children cycle through different hobbies, whether it’s crafting friendship bracelets or concocting homemade slime, will recognize the single-minded fervor that has overtaken the students of Class 203.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This strange place was a nightmare, a wasteland of rubble covered with brown slime.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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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
Familiar monsters, from slimes to sabercats, abound, but now the kids can recruit the beasts to help them hunt for loot.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
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
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
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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
He was selected the AFC’s defensive player of the week Wednesday and got slimed leaving practice Thursday after being chosen Nickelodeon’s “NFL Slimetime NVP.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Even Dwight D. Eisenhower, an enormously popular president, was afraid to take on McCarthy directly, even after he slimed Gen. George C. Marshall, Ike’s beloved mentor.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2020
But I’m not sure why the same contemporary critics who slimed “Olympia” now get to have the definitive word on which Manets matter most.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
A thoroughly slimed goblin collapsed retching on the floor.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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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
But an end to the lurid, sliming, morale-breaking, goodwill-sapping 24 years of Snyder’s ownership is surely worth a parade.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
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
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
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