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But competition in the industry is heating up as other insurers slough off inflationary distortions, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

It’s the sort of drill where it’s easy enough to slough off a rep or two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

It probably gets into the water as bits slough off when the bottle is squeezed or gets exposed to heat.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2024

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023

She ran down to the water’s edge and stared out into the slough.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Every half-decade or so, Justin Bieber sloughs off the callused skin of the pop superstar he became at age 15 to reveal the tender and quirky R&B singer he’s always been at heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2025

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

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

That love is palpable in “Drifting Toward Twilight” and its accompanying documentary, which sees Saar fawning over the orange tint of sloughed bark and the mystical qualities of garden scraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2024

The strongest visual effect of suspended sediment was the aggregation of sediment particles on the jellyfish after just ~1.5 hours of incubation, to which the jellyfish started to produce excess mucus that slowly sloughed off.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

Over time, the bits of rock sloughed off the comet drift away from its orbital path, so the meteors spread out in space.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2023

In that light all form of man sloughed off the thing that came towards Ged.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Ethnicity and age did not appear to affect touch DNA deposits and the small sample of those with sloughing skin conditions, like eczema, did not show any significant association with primary DNA transfer.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

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