slimy
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In the weeks since the Reflecting Pool’s makeover went south, many have seized what is a rich and slimy opportunity for metaphor.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
It gets stranger still as a pair of ultrasound probes are fixed to my head, complete with splodges of slimy gel above the ears - to measure the blood flow to my brain.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
"I can't think of anything in American cooking that's common with that slimy texture."
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
I don’t want to ruin this friendship, but it feels slimy.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
I didn’t want to be subjected to her lectures, forced to drink slimy things, and I didn’t want to leave my brother.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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But Mendoza’s ascent to the analyst role has triggered enough bile from some of the slimier precincts of social media that Mendoza avoids Twitter except to seek baseball-related news, and rarely reads comments about herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Not everything worked in the film, a darker, slimier spinoff adjacent to Sony Pictures’ “Spider-verse” Marvel world.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
Even with Jim Bakker, who was the much slimier character, there’s a sense that every time you see him, he’s not twirling the metaphorical mustache.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
Who am I to begrudge anyone for seeking out joy in the midst of a pandemic even if that joy starts with a slimier, sweatier depiction of another pandemic?
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2020
After a lot of shouting to persuade the dog to keep near me, I turned back and went through the mud again, past the cross-roads junction, and along a still slimier, water-logged cart-track.
From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike
A great piece in the WSJ today from reporters Thomas Grove and Alan Cullison illustrates one of the slimiest realities of life in Washington.
From Fox News ● Nov. 8, 2019
The show uses CGI magic to return Times Square to its slimiest state.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
The five-year stretch from 1984 to 1989, from Ghostbusters to Ghostbusters 2, was the slimiest in American history.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
Made by Native Instruments, it's a synthesizer plug-in that sits in a producer's laptop or digital audio workstation and allows him or her to slather different synth-textures together to make the sickest, slimiest bassline.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
The flower beds had shriveled up and were crawling with the fattest, slimiest slugs I'd ever seen.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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