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Few surfaces are as seductively slippery right out of the box as PTFE—especially appealing if you want to cook delicate foods like eggs and fish while adding little, or no, fat.

Michelle is fluent in the perky command, the passive voice, the slippery non-apology, the kind of language that frames cruelty as blameless happenstance.

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One slippery line is that unless a policy is on his official website, it isn’t his view.

Liverpool MP Paula Barker warned of a "slippery slope when safety concerns are ignored" at football stadiums, referencing the Hillsborough disaster.

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No point in pretending that we can maintain the same footing, but theater-makers do a tremendous service when they survey this slippery terrain.

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