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Caltrans has secured millions in emergency funding to fix a large crack that has developed in the slope below Pacific Coast Highway near Laguna Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The landslide occurred in August, when warm ocean waters and heavier precipitation favor both glacier retreat and slope failure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s unclear what caused the crack, but a Laguna Beach spokesperson said in an email that the recent storm surges could have eroded the base of the slope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

That is the first step down the slope to fraud: a person who sees the ethical line clearly and crosses it anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But between the scree slope and the Mountains, glimpsed only as a white glitter, lay what Renn had been dreading.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Also go for: Weekend après parties at Canyon Lodge bring DJs to the slopes, while off-mountain excursions range from guided snowmobile tours to tubing at Woolly’s Adventure Summit, a family-friendly amusement park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Friday, streets were quiet in Bend, an area known for its natural beauty, with hiking trails and ski slopes nearby that attract tens of thousands of visitors every year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Glaciers are retreating, permafrost and high-mountain slopes are becoming increasingly unstable, and communities and infrastructure downstream face growing risks from complex and cascading hazards," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Researchers at the University of Montpellier's Laboratory of Geography and Land Planning have developed evacuation routes that account for slopes, obstacles, walking speeds, and potential bottlenecks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Up the hillside to join them, scrambling over the sharp slopes.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

If you have a sloped yard that struggles with runoff, consider planting ground cover, such as buckwheat and coyote brush, which act as a protective carpet over the soil and slow the flow of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The vineyard for the domaine’s namesake wine is in the village of Vosne-Romanée, where vines grow on a gently sloped plot of less than 5 acres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Amplitude: Athletes must land in a designated spot in a sloped area.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Now that his youngest son had moved out, the 56-year-old retired home builder wanted to downsize from his 6-acre, sloped property to a 2,200 square-foot house in Hayden, Idaho, which he had built himself.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025

On either hand the walls sloped upwards, until they were fifty feet high or more, and along each wall stood an aisle of trees that also increased in height as they marched inwards.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

From that restaurant Cardoso could look out the window and see sloping hills and Lucas’ Wagyu cows raised there on the farm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, the terminal has a dramatic, glass-walled facade with a sloping roofline that recalls a wingspan.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Also, the rest of the term structure is sloping upwards, and the futures are trading at a premium to VIX.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Crude oil has been trading in a downward sloping channel since the middle of May.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The fog ebbed away as they climbed a sloping hill.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai