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"These changes can also increase fatigue and make walking longer distances more challenging, while reducing the ability to recover from trips or slips -- a key factor in falls among older adults."

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Micron slips and SpaceX is in danger of ending its three-day winning streak.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

It was the explanation for one-third of the pink slips.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

At night, Elle shrugs on her father’s heavy black coat and slips into a reverie about a myth in which a grief-stricken murderer called the Leather Man searches for his lost daughter.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

She picked up the pad of entry slips and tapped it absently on the display table.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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