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slip

[slip] / slɪp /


NOUN
loss of foothold
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NOUN
decrease
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VERB
lessen, return to a lower quality
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But his valuation could slip to $1.27 trillion if the company’s spending on AI resources exceeds $600 billion before 2031 and its revenue doesn’t scale quickly enough, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The company blamed a less-favorable mix of aircraft deliveries and higher projected supply-chain costs for the slip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

They had pulled a truck around in front of the entrance, leaving just a few inches for the employees to slip in and out of the garage, invisible from the street.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

And credit must be due to Underwood for pulling off an undertaking where any little slip would be pounced on by critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

They enlist the help of a friendly American sergeant, who allows them to slip away.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

She slipped into pumps with the American flag bedazzled across them at a primary election party in Iowa in June.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

In the U.S., it slipped by 2% to 50.7 million, below an expected 53.5 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Machado, who slipped out of hiding in Venezuela last December to receive her Nobel, said she had returned home to "mobilize society."

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Treasury yields slipped as markets continued to digest Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest-rate hold, and the subsequent press conference from Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Late at night, when the fire was only a few glowing coals and Gran was snoring, I slipped out of bed and sat at the spinning wheel.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Margaret Giles, 84, from nearby Croesyceiliog, has spent the past nine hours on a trolley there, after slipping and injuring her hip.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Nearly 200 nations are gathering in Armenia on Monday for critical negotiations as governments come under pressure to salvage a landmark nature pact whose goals are slipping out of reach.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

As the sold-out crowd cheered, Monáe shuddered, slipping into her best Sissy Spacek as she lamented, “They’re all gonna laugh at me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Oil prices were falling, with U.S. benchmark WTI slipping below $90 a barrel as immediate supply concerns eased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Edda—” my aunt tries one more time, but I’m already jamming my arms into my coat, leaving my aunt in my room, muttering something about being a responsible employee and then slipping out the door.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He must have been conveyed by an angel, or have slipt on a sudden into a railroad train, purposely and for the nonce provided.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

Bertha having slipt out of the room, Marie escaped the tender grasp of Dieterick's hand, and profited by this opportunity to turn the subject of the conversation.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff

There was a deathlike silence as Niono slipt the bolt and gallantly handed the bride into the cage.

From Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience by F. Anstey

Sprightly and active, thou the other day, Didst fill thy station in this world of cares; In life’s fair morn, thy soul hath slipt away, From its delusions, and a thousand snares!

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo

With this, the old man quietly slipt out of the room, as if he were afraid the slightest noise might awaken the departed knight.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff


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