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slip

[slip] / slɪp /


NOUN
loss of foothold
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NOUN
decrease
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VERB
lessen, return to a lower quality
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Meta shares slip 2% premarket amid a broader AI selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

And credit must be due to Underwood for pulling off an undertaking where any little slip would be pounced on by critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The report did not slip past Weiss, of course.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“And so whatever any part of the Federal Reserve does, if they slip up, if they stumble on supervision or on payments, that reflects on our institutional credibility,” said Warsh.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It’s a red shirt, his red flag, reaching to pull me out of the depths of the endless sticky mud, and I feel again, my fingers slip through his.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

However, its production has slipped behind that of other countries, such as Poland and China, in recent years.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

John McKinney, 58, who leapfrogged to a second-place finish in the primaries amid a stoic, law-and-order campaign that sometimes slipped into Spencer Pratt-style dystopian imagery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

But it wouldn’t be the same, and I’d always feel like the house slipped away from our family.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Shares slipped premarket, having initially risen after yesterday’s close.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Torak slipped and went down on one knee.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Nearly 200 nations are gathering in Armenia on Monday for critical negotiations as governments come under pressure to salvage a landmark nature pact whose goals are slipping out of reach.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Halloween was a chance to embrace her wild imagination, slipping into a character and world she could fully embody, even if it was only for a night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Survey respondents see growth slipping back thereafter, to 2.1% or 2.2% for the rest of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

At 3.05pm local time in Sardinia on Sunday, Evans could only stand and watch as another world rally title looked to be slipping from his grasp.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Boo’s enormous shirt is slipping off her shoulders.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

He himself, thinking it was Healy, slipt quietly by, for he did not want to be recognised, as the carrier often came to his master's, and might have betrayed him.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe

A Pin of a middling Size has been discharged by Urine, three Days after it slipt down; and a little Bone has been expelled the same Way, besides Cherry-stones, Plumb-stones, and even one Peach-stone.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

And once she slipt, and nearly fell with fright, Upon a slimy, moving thing, that crawled!

From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by George Francis Dawson

Who walking down Pall Mall, He slipt his foot, And down he fell, And fears he won't get well again.'

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

Then she flew from the ball, and threw on Her Catskin cloak again; And slipt in unseen by the cook, Who little thought where she had been.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various


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