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slink

[slingk] / slɪŋk /


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But each time the net seemed to be closing in on Neukgu, he would slink off the radar.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“They slink in without warning, do no immediate damage so far as one can tell and then begin their deadly work from within….”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Do you slink away and count on the courts to sort it out?

From Salon • May 13, 2025

Every few months after she left the narrow white cottage on Poplar Boulevard, Maria Merritt would slink back to the tree-lined street in El Sereno, find a secluded spot and stare at her old house.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024

She never needed to slink into dark hallways with other girls and exchange guilty confidences.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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