slough

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

At the same time, there is growing concern about the health and environmental consequences of microplastics — the bits of degraded plastic that slough off as the product ages, or is used, or washed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

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

“I’m pretty positive that every one of my family members have gone up and down the slough at one time or another.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

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

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

Signs of snowmelt-fueled deluge were everywhere in famed Yosemite Valley on Saturday as the normally placid Merced River surged over its banks, swamping roads, erasing swimming beaches, and turning meadows into murky sloughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

It’s partly dredged, historically connecting some shallow tidal sloughs and mud flats that are rearing habitat for juvenile Chinook and other salmonid species.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

In the room beyond the landing, the burning curtain sloughs off its rod.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Oil prices sloughed off fresh Middle East violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2024

The state has relatively young mountains from a geology standpoint, meaning much of its steep terrain is still in motion and covered in loose rocks and soil that can be sloughed off easily.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

A snow bear crashed through the brush, huge and skeletal, half its head sloughed away to reveal the skull beneath.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

But consider adding on a scrub and sloughing off a layer or two of skin — it’s my favorite way to enter the new year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

It wasn’t as deliberate as deciding, at age six, to become an atheist, but more like an imperceptible sloughing of layers.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García