slippery
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The film itself is just as slippery and multi-layered, down to Lee’s heady admixture of documentary and dramatic aesthetics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The best-known category in recent years has been ESG—environmental, social, and governance—a slippery set of criteria to define, and one recently out of political and investor favor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Drivers are being warned that the return to wet weather could lead to slippery conditions as well as the risk of flooded roads.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
For a filmmaker fascinated by the slippery workings of memory, the combination is a natural fit: Before Odysseus can resume his journey, he has to remember that he wants to go home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
If your pointe shoes are too slippery or satiny, you can walk over to the trays, step into them, and grind the resin dust into the smooth fabric.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
The iPhone SE is slightly taller, wider, and heavier than the Mini — not to mention slipperier with its rounded corners.
From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022
Over time, shampoo, soap, conditioners and other products can build up and make the tub slipperier than it used to be.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2022
Osunde will soon illustrate its slipperier connotations, which touch both the marginalized and the powerful — albeit differently of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
Faster, slipperier, she was sliding through the woods and then down to the lakeshore.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
The new method proved exceptionally effective, as the team created the slipperiest liquid surface in the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
She is the slipperiest performer working in country music’s top tier, doing just enough to stay there, and even more to remind you how little she thinks of its limitations.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
East End Underworld by Raphael Samuel Published in 1981, this is the story of Arthur Harding, who was born in 1896 and became known as “the slipperiest character in Brick Lane”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019
Among the slipperiest of all is AIDS, which evolves new antigens even as it sits within an individual patient, thereby eventually overwhelming his or her immune system.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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