pink-slip
Example Sentences
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Colbert was given a pink slip with a long tail this year.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
The trek to the boss’s office, the tense stares across the desk, the awkward mix of praise and criticism—and the potential for a promotion or a pink slip when it is all over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
It looks like I’ll be commuting more—but for how long before I, too, get a pink slip without warning or reason?
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025
“No Highs” is an attempt to give himself a playlist pink slip.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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