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slinky

[sling-kee] / ˈslɪŋ ki /


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Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD, an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the study's senior and co-corresponding author, compared DNA inside cells to a coiled slinky.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

"We love love," she wrote, along with a selfie of herself in a slinky black Prada gown.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

The lazy, hypnotic groove moves with jazz chords and slinky synth melodies that feel like bright rays of light.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Instead of incessant strobes and Charli clad in a slinky skirt, performing solo with no choreography, Johannes proposes backup dancers, green glitter, high wires and harnesses.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

On this map, however, India was called Malabar, and the island, which I knew to be Sri Lanka, was overlaid with slinky script that read Land of Serendip.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

The slower, slinkier and weirder side of Prince’s output is another reference point throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

“Stay on That” is one of the slinkier numbers on the album, with rapidly strummed guitars and a wah-wah squawk that recalls Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

The company hinted at a slinkier, less boxy design with its Monograph concept at the New York Auto Show last spring.

From Seattle Times Sep. 5, 2017

So the question must be asked: Are cats just like dogs but in slinkier form, eager and able to be part of the human family?

From Slate Jul. 5, 2015

Etana spent time early in her career singing R&B, and while she’s let go of the slinkier parts of the genre, she’s kept the passion and the inflections, making for an alluring hybrid.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2011

Jack O’Dell, the slinkiest drummer in town, is packing up his drumsticks.

From Washington Post Jul. 4, 2022




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