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[slahyd] / slaɪd /


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The quality of the bowling and fact the Proteas are playing their first Test since November were other factors in South Africa's slide.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Some planned attractions include a Barbie activity pool and a Hot Wheels slide tower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

We slide into a pleather booth beneath burnt-orange walls and televisions playing Spanish-language fútbol.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bonds may receive a bid later in 2027, when the stock market slide eventually encourages a move into havens, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

I take my beautiful white hat out of my pocket and slide that across the counter, too.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

He slides the check to whoever is still sitting there.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Also offered: a straw maze, pumpkin decorating, a petting zoo, giant rocking horses, slides and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"The charge a droplet acquires as it slides depends heavily on the specific surface -- we measured differences of up to a factor of ten," explains Zhongyuan Ni, the study's first author.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar to serve as Donald Trump's presidential jet experienced a takeoff delay Wednesday as inspectors checked one of its inflatable slides used for emergency evacuations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The latter was packed minimally with changes of clothes—o because it was too full of other things, such as slides for his upcoming lectures and presents for his Cuban hosts.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Rojas tweaked his back in Game 3 when his feet slid out from under him in the slick grass in shallow right field as he made an on-target throw to first base.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Caterpillar shares slid almost 6%, Deere fell close to 4% and CNH Industrial dropped over 6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Yet the Russell 2000 has now slid 9% below its record close set less than two months ago, ending at 2,793.20 on Wednesday and putting the small-cap index on the doorstep of correction territory.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Word spread quickly, and soon a throng of smartphone-wielding citizens had surrounded the immigration enforcement van, which couldn’t move because one enterprising, early-arriving activist had slid underneath it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

I turned left down the corridor, my access badge lighting up on my chest as the large metal door slid open to let us through.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021

In places the tracks are such as would be made by feet, that had slidden upon soft clay in descending declivities.

From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint

Thou didst promise; but verily the substance hath slidden from my grasp: whilst I, fond fool, embraced a shadow.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

The cans bulged slightly after the operation, and were therefore slidden along by the trolleyful to men with needles and soldering irons, who vented them, and soldered the aperture.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

The earth of a bank has all slidden away from it but the fence was fastened to it and held it up.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

“It’s really a white collar sport now,” said Los Angeles club coach Michael Dyer, who uses a sliding fee scale to keep less-affluent 12-year-olds on his team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Gold prices have faltered, falling back from record highs earlier this year and sliding further in recent months amid rising bond yields and rate-hike uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"The automation and digitalisation of warfare leads to its gamification. This leads to degradation and sliding back of humanity to barbarity," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Waterfall island kitchen with quartz counters, custom cabinetry, large dining area & hidden pantry. Sun-drenched family room with walls of sliding glass doors that bring the outdoors in,” the listing adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

I snatched it up, yanked up the sliding door again, flung the case inside, shoved the door down, and pushed my prison bag up against it.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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