slippery

The robots’ pincer-like hands make it challenging to grasp slippery and heavy ceramics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The births follow the zoo's success last November in breeding the Atewa slippery frog, another critically endangered species from the same forest, which had also never been bred in captivity before.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“You are a slippery thinker,” Cliffe tells a young man in an April video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Hyaline cartilage is smooth and slippery, allowing bones to move against one another with very little friction in joints such as the ankles, hips, shoulders and parts of the knee.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Jack gradually made it to his feet after a few slippery attempts.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

The iPhone SE is slightly taller, wider, and heavier than the Mini — not to mention slipperier with its rounded corners.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022

Osunde will soon illustrate its slipperier connotations, which touch both the marginalized and the powerful — albeit differently of course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

Lines are abundant, but slipperier, in Linda Cafritz’s paintings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021

Faster, slipperier, she was sliding through the woods and then down to the lakeshore.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The new method proved exceptionally effective, as the team created the slipperiest liquid surface in the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

She is the slipperiest performer working in country music’s top tier, doing just enough to stay there, and even more to remind you how little she thinks of its limitations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019

East End Underworld by Raphael Samuel Published in 1981, this is the story of Arthur Harding, who was born in 1896 and became known as “the slipperiest character in Brick Lane”.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019

Salmon are slippery fish, and Loki was the slipperiest of salmon; he wriggled and tried to slip through Thor’s fingers, but Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman