slip
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After showing signs of genuine progress in recent weeks, Liverpool let potential victory slip away here in a concerning manner.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Engineers also added "dynamic slip tables" to its flight software, allowing the rover to better anticipate how much its wheels might slip on different surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Holding a white and orange slip, she said she had registered to vote earlier that day.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Choose a pair of foam wings — large or small — slip your arms through and stand in a life-sized wind tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
To make my point, I slip my hand through the grab handle and grip it as hard as I can.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Isaac slipped into a coma and his condition worsened rapidly.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
He later slipped and twisted his lower right leg badly as he made a dash to collect a supply package across ground covered by broken bricks, concrete shards, pieces of steel and other debris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The sacks were holding back the water, but on Feb. 14 one of them slipped, sending water streaming inside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
McDonald’s U.S. same-store sales during that period slipped 0.2%.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Today, she’d slipped me a piece of that cornbread for lunch.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Just days after the plan came into effect, the city is slipping back into a depressingly familiar pattern.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
And when he saw his grip slipping, he turned to the type of sheer hatred he otherwise claimed to abhor.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
For many Angelenos, morale is poor and quality of life in the city is slipping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Some would-be Chinese immigrants tried slipping in from Canada and Mexico, prompting the government to launch America’s first border patrols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
She folded back her scrap quilt, and up she rose, slipping out of her nightdress.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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The wind slipt over the hill And down the valley.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
Thus, very musty and melancholy, he slipt into his master's chamber, who had slept on, and was just wakened, little thinking of what had happened.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Thro' an awaiting soul 'tis slipt And lo, words spring that breathe immortal.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
Any moderate number of discs, similarly cut, may be slipt over one another, and only a sector of each is left visible.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
To escape observation, he slipt to a side; and when he peered in again, no one was to be seen.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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