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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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Root has removed himself from first slip and now fields at mid-off.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

At Cava, sales started to slip around the end of its quarter ended July 12 because of recent cyclospora outbreaks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

This would allow the bouncers to be seen on camera checking an ID even while letting people slip past anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Perhaps Pakistan would have made further inroads had captain Salman Ali Agha held Brook at second slip off Shahzad.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Jonathan leaned into the root system, hoping his feet would not slip, and let go with his hands.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

—New York gold contracts slipped 0.25% to $4,683.30 a troy ounce in early European trade.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Brent crude oil contracts for October delivery fell 0.4% to $91.84 a barrel, while the U.S. gauge WTI slipped 0.5% to $84.55 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey" slipped to third, bringing in $19.5 million, down 17 percent in its sixth weekend, for a current domestic total of $539.1 million.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

As bond yields and prices move in opposite directions, the U.S. fixed-income market broadly slipped this week.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

I went down the stairs with my head down and slipped past the charging desk, which swarmed with patrons clutching books and slips of paper.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Micron stock was slipping Monday as another Chinese memory-chip market prepares for an initial public offering.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

Stocks fell, with the Nasdaq Composite sliding 1.3%, the S&P 500 dropping 0.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipping 0.2%, or 116 points.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

They're slipping down the pecking order and they're the only team not using the budget cap in full.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

He posted on social media about various health ailments, including irritable bowel syndrome and spondylolisthesis, a condition caused by a vertebra slipping out of place.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

A deep whooshing sort of sigh, like some important part of her is slipping out of her mouth and into the cold night air.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The wind slipt over the hill And down the valley.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice

In descending from his chaise, one of his crutches fell, and a bonbonniere, of which the contents were dispersed upon the ground, slipt from the hand of his valet.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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

So much lord Renier who slipt him in Revealed, that I might guile you.

From Yolanda of Cyprus by Cale Young Rice

Then she flew from the ball, and threw on Her Catskin cloak again; And slipt in unseen by the cook, Who little thought where she had been.

From The Nursery Rhymes of England by Various




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