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skidding

verb as in slide against will

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Only seven other NFL teams can say the same, though Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Buffalo all have opportunities to end their skids this weekend.

Another option is a vehicle like Can-Am’s Defender Pro XT HD 10, which rolls off the showroom floor with a locking front differential, nearly 11 inches of suspension travel, 13 inches of ground clearance, full skid plates, and a 4,500-pound winch.

The city had its own skid row in East Village and more tents popped up elsewhere nearby.

Their strong defense will look to slow down Ryan Tannehill, Derrick Henry and the rest of the Titans, who broke out of their recent skid with an impressive comeback of their own on the road against the Ravens.

The pharmaceutical and biomedical industries influence doctors’ decision-making, actively bias major product research, pay key players to grease the skids for expanded sales, and ignore or obscure the harm some of their medicines and devices can do.

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How did she film with live bullets flying and teargas canisters skidding across the pavement?

The move was supposedly for safety reasons, to force more skidding and slower turns.

Keeping sharp lookout for skidding cars and unexpected pedestrians and street-car crossings and the like fully occupied Bud.

This "skidding" is done by a powerful, steam-driven stationary donkey-engine, which is fitted up with a long cable and a drum.

My right scull was for ever skidding on mud or weeds, and the backward suck of shoal water clogged our progress.

Jason had a vanishing glimpse of the open-mouthed guards, then they were skidding around the corner of a building.

Walter could but cling to the swaying, jouncing, skidding sled, and let the dogs go where they would.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skidding, such as: swerve, glide, drift, slip, veer, and sheer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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