slipperiness
Example Sentences
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In 1991 the late University of Georgia economist Dwight Lee and I published a book on this economic force, which we dubbed “quicksilver capital” to capture the slipperiness of modern-day wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The court also heard that the police had not tested the slipperiness, or co-efficient of friction, of the road surface where the car was said to have lost control.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
In turn, there can be some slipperiness in the way companies talk about their privacy and security promises.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2025
Silverman is focused on the slipperiness of identity and the difficulty of finding categories flexible enough to accommodate the many possible selves locked inside women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
