slips

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Kin Slips is what’s called a sublingual, meaning it’s designed to be placed under the tongue to dissolve and be absorbed into the bloodstream.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

He’s the author of a book called Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away, which he wrote in order to preserve his memories.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2017

Slips are few and easily fixable, like too many olives on an entree of silken cod.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2016

The good: shows by Macklemore, Run the Jewels, Halsey, The Pink Slips and Tyler, The Creator; the weather; and wristbands that let you roam with beer in hand.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2016

Slips them into divots he’d made weeks before, when he was scouting these coves for mating terns and shearwaters’ nests.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs