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slime

[slahym] / slaɪm /


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Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.

From Slate Jun. 19, 2026

Glow worms, slime moulds and rare lichens are among 1,109 species discovered in just one corner of Scotland's rainforest.

From BBC May 21, 2026

When slime, fidget spinners and other tactile toys started catching on, the company looked to create a product that could compete.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Elsewhere she defined the term as “this mixture of geniality and sentiment stuck together with a sticky slime of calf’s-foot jelly.”

From Salon Apr. 19, 2026

Of course the Greeks too had their roots in the primeval slime.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

To this day, many biological slimes haven’t been researched enough to know the details of their structure and behavior.

From Scientific American Jan. 28, 2023

Compared with naturally occurring slimes, artificial slime has no practical use.

From Washington Post Jun. 30, 2022

It's a pure troll, meant to be so beyond the pale that even responding to it slimes the person falsely accused.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2022

But those metabolic pathways would not have worked well in the Sun-soaked shallow waters in which the slimes lived.

From Science Magazine Apr. 13, 2022

It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In his lead single for the album, the musician used a photo of Halle Berry being slimed at the Kids Choice Awards without her consent.

From Salon Oct. 11, 2023

“He slimed the driver’s seat of my car,” she says.

From The Verge May 28, 2022

He was selected the AFC’s defensive player of the week Wednesday and got slimed leaving practice Thursday after being chosen Nickelodeon’s “NFL Slimetime NVP.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 12, 2021

Even Dwight D. Eisenhower, an enormously popular president, was afraid to take on McCarthy directly, even after he slimed Gen. George C. Marshall, Ike’s beloved mentor.

From Washington Post Aug. 27, 2020

He was a stunted little man with knobby knees and a balding head and a nose like a used pencil eraser, and he was stark naked and slimed head to toe with sticky, translucent gel.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

Mr. Parnell, a decorated Army veteran of the war in Afghanistan, has denied wrongdoing and called on his rival to quit the GOP primary race for sliming his family.

From Washington Times Sep. 9, 2021

“They’re quick. They’re meditative. From the whispering to the slurping to the sliming to the folding. This is entirely tactile work to this entire generation that’s entirely screenal.”

From Washington Post Nov. 6, 2018

But basic cable package viewers at home were immune to the smell, and the response from people who saw the sliming was overwhelmingly positive.

From The Verge Aug. 23, 2017

The beast’s green tongue rasped across her visor, sliming the lower section.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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