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slough

[sluhf] / slʌf /




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While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

After a week or two, slough off their dried, leathery skin and pulp to reveal the beans within.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2023

There I was, padding about in a dressing-gown, making a slough of sentiment out of a commonplace hotel bedroom.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier