slide
Example Sentences
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Fine control over surface texture could help regulate friction, allowing small robots to either grip surfaces or slide across them.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Rates on 30-year mortgages jumped to 6.38% last week, reversing a slide that had carried them to their lowest levels since 2022 and threatening the spring home-buying season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Read: Palo Alto Networks and other cybersecurity stocks slide on fresh Anthropic fears.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 28, 2026
Carnival stock slide after the cruise operator cut its fiscal-year earnings guidance.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Then he would have to slide again with everyone watching so that there would be witnesses.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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