slippery

It helped shift my attention to the supporting cast: Shioli Kutsuna and Aoi Yamada make a playful tag team as two slippery helpers skulking around the margins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The comparison between the two managers isn’t perfect because “quality” is a slippery category to define.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The samples revealed a 100 foot thick layer of pelagic clay, an extremely soft, slippery sediment formed over millions of years as microscopic particles slowly settled to the seafloor.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

"We applied it liberally to the leg just to try and get it as slippery as possible to help it to come out. It made all the difference."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Seven screamed as Thorn scrambled for purchase on a slippery rock.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

He also said the ice surface was slipperier than during visits on sunny days in previous years.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

He struggled to find consistent velocity with his pitches and quality grip with the MLB baseball, which had smaller seams and a slipperier cover.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021

Ma was growing heavier and slipperier, and my arms were aching from holding on to her.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

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

Traditionally, one of the slipperiest things about talking to God is trying to tell someone else about it after the fact.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018

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