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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

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

Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Staying with me for just a second, she jumped in the slough and swam back to the other side.

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

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

The last of four breaches on Steamboat and Union sloughs should be done by mid-October, allowing the historical tidal channels, marsh and mud flats to breathe again.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

We explored the sloughs, where we found hobo nests.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

The material lasted for about five days, after which it was sloughed off along with the top layer of tissue as the surgical wounds healed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 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

The golden ropes of Tanin’s restraints sloughed off her and dissipated into nothingness.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

Motherhood has made Slate gentler on herself, sloughing off feelings of foolishness, self-criticism and self-doubt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

The school was an old two-story building with bro­ken windows and dim, cobblestone hallways, patches of its origi­nal dull yellow paint still showing between sloughing chunks of plaster.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini