slip
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“If all cars have immobilizers, and you’re the one car that doesn’t, you can mostly slip under the radar,” Brantingham said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The S&P 500 sits about 3% below its all-time high, and could slip more before rallying.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I knew I couldn’t let pleasure take over, and let time slip by without results.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the same over, Abdullah Shafique's crooked bat resulted in an edge to Root at first slip.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Then I’d slip it into my backpack at the end of the day.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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Oil prices slipped back Friday after a string of gains, but ended the week sharply higher as traders assessed growing risks to Middle East crude exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield slipped 0.4 basis points to 4.970%, edging back after hitting a near three-year high of 4.992% on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Food manufacturers slipped it into an expanding range of products.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
While her Belarusian opponent grew visibly more frustrated as the final slipped away, Rybakina remained remarkably composed.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Chip was looking at his watch before he even slipped off his bike.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Yet the goal that actually matters, fewer heart attacks and strokes, keeps slipping away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The one-two punch of higher energy prices and higher yields finally seemed to catch up to the stock market, with the S&P 500 slipping 1.8% on the week through Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Pili has spent the week quietly slipping through corridors while the media storm swirls around Taylor.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Micron stock was slipping as unions push for a greater share of the memory-chip company's profits.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I know where it is! I know where the treasure is buried!” he yelled, slipping and sliding down the muddy cliff.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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So I quickly arose And slipt into my clothes, To fulfil this said spectre's command.
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice
To escape observation, he slipt to a side; and when he peered in again, no one was to be seen.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
Then he had used persuasion and cajolery, until at last the boy had slipt into the pool, and in a week was swimming with the best of them.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
The British ships slipt their cables at their approach, and likewise formed in line of battle, but his lordship avoided an encounter while the enemy had the weathergage.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Hear now, now is the Time to hearken; the Covenant-chain had very near slipt, by your not keeping it firmly.
From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Part I, Part II by Cadwallader Colden
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