slough

Can Andy Burnham pull the U.K. out of its slough?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

Despite it all, the Oregon Democrat described himself as “pathologically upbeat” and suggested there’s a way out of today’s slough of congressional dysfunction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

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

She was down by an old slough that emptied into the river.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The fish were historically found in backwaters and sloughs along the lower Colorado River and in slow-moving seeps and streams in the Salton Sink basin, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

But there's no small amount of controversy when it comes to marshes, mires, fens, bogs, vernal pools, prairie ponds, pocosins, sloughs, small streams, seasonal streams, and rain-dependent streams.

From Salon ● May 2, 2023

The Duwamish River once meandered through a tidal wonderland of wetlands, sloughs, side channels and oxbows — some 5,300 acres of habitat for wildlife, including salmon, birds and a banquet of insect and invertebrate life.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2022

The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The material lasted for about five days, after which it was sloughed off along with the top layer of tissue as the surgical wounds healed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

I’d explain how my daughter sloughed off embryos that were surgically implanted at $30,000 a pop.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2024

Bits of soft rock sloughed off in the blaze, and a huge fireball briefly flared like a torch in the night sky.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2023

Oscar winner Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, a sharp-tongued veteran spy and the supervisor of Slough House, where intelligence officers who have fallen out of favor are sloughed aside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

He turned his back on her and quickly sloughed off his sodden clothes, spreading them beside the fire.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

However, some men have ended up in A&E with a penis turning black and skin "sloughing off" after a botched procedure.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

At best, the idea relates to some kind of individual flourishing, the opposite of corporate serfdom, a sloughing off of organizational chains leading to an explosion of creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

And yet here he is, sloughing off yet another weekend for the cause—ignoring all evidence to the contrary that a better world is possible.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2025

Rather than correct them, Liz decides to keep up the pretense — no great stretch for someone so used to sloughing off and trying on one alias after another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

He had a sour, thin-lipped look even in sleep, and another resembled a reptile in molt, the skin of his face sloughing away in curls of dead skin.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor