pink-slip
Example Sentences
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The trek to the boss’s office, the tense stares across the desk, the awkward mix of praise and criticism—and the potential for a promotion or a pink slip when it is all over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
It looks like I’ll be commuting more—but for how long before I, too, get a pink slip without warning or reason?
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025
“No Highs” is an attempt to give himself a playlist pink slip.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
So Bill Plaschke has to smear the Bruins’ triumph over hated USC with yet another pink slip?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2021
She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
