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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
It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
For Jenga, it was how to add weight to the tiny blocks to make sure they could stack well—players still need to use a toothpick to slide them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I slide onto the floor in a heap.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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Van Meter and her husband felt guilty throwing out their parents’ photo albums and boxes of slides even though they never looked at them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The theatrical marching orders here seem to involve throwing spaghetti against the wall and laughing uproariously as it slides to the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Brent crude is down 2.1% to $101.70 a barrel, while the front-month WTI contract slides 2.2% to $98.11 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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
And it does—it slides right in, and as I twist, I hear the satisfying clunk of the lock turning.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Raw or unadjusted jobless claims slid below 200,000 in mid-July and have remained under that threshold for 12 straight weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 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
Meta shares fell 4.8% to $715.62 and Microsoft shares slid 1.3% to $509.22.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Slowly, I slid down the side of the bookcase until I was sitting on my heels, then buried my face in my hands.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Lovely, slidden pass by Tielemans, and a lovely, calm, delayed finish by Iheancho.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
Betty had been about to interpose, but at Aunt Priscilla's concession Doris had slidden down and taken Solomon in her arms, and rubbed her soft cheek against his head.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Mabel had slidden from the bed when her father appeared, and the two girls now stood by him, as if by their presence they could console him and share his sorrow.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
Whilst the unhappy mother was thus pouring out her heart sorrow, Pollie had crept up, and in loving pity had slidden her small hand into her aged friend's in token of sympathy with her grief.
From Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets by Gertrude P. Dyer
The slidden boat gave way And the black foamy water split—and met.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
I got to try a standard Waymo and the new mini-minivan-like Ojai cars with sliding doors, more room and more tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
A large glass sliding door opens to yet another deck, which is just a stone’s throw away from the ocean.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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
I could just make out a cowboy hat as the sliding doors closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Something settles inside me, just this tiny shift, like a piece of wood sliding into place, and it’s not weird being with these guys.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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