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The rest of us live on a slope from early risk to established disease even though we know what keeps people healthy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But in terms of how it affects the creative work, it becomes a slippery slope if that’s the tail that wags the dog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Pyroclastic currents - rivers of gas, volcanic ash and rock fragments - continued to flow down Fuego's south-eastern slope early on Tuesday, the government agency which monitors its activity said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The construct of volatility derivatives remains solidly bullish for stocks, as the term structures slope upwards and VIX futures are trading with a large premium to VIX.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

They moved on a bit from the bottom of the slope, just in case they had triggered an avalanche.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned "The Odyssey".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

"They like the nice grassy slopes and the burrows have already been dug out for them by rabbits and Manx shearwaters, which is our star bird on the island."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Colorado’s slopes may offer world-class skiing, but you don’t have to pay state taxes to enjoy the powder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

In the wild, they grow only on the western slopes of California's Sierra Nevada.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The vineyard for the domaine’s namesake wine is in the village of Vosne-Romanée, where vines grow on a gently sloped plot of less than 5 acres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Amplitude: Athletes must land in a designated spot in a sloped area.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Now that his youngest son had moved out, the 56-year-old retired home builder wanted to downsize from his 6-acre, sloped property to a 2,200 square-foot house in Hayden, Idaho, which he had built himself.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025

He called it “an excellent example of the Midcentury Modern style,” noting its Googie-style sign, “simple geometric volumes, low sloped roof, relatively chaste exterior walls and decorative concrete blocks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

Glaucus was a fisherman who was fishing one day from a green meadow which sloped down to the sea.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Inside, the eye immediately travels upward, led by rows of slightly sloping, fluted, twisting columns that seem to soar to the heavens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

On a recent evening, from a seat at the restaurant’s fluted blonde-wood bar, I watched as a blaze of honeyed light poured through a wall of windows overlooking sloping vineyards and the Appalachian foothills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Also, the rest of the term structure is sloping upwards, and the futures are trading at a premium to VIX.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Fix the Fells' partnership manager Isabel Berry said the route's "sloping, slippery surface is currently difficult to walk on" leading people to use the areas at either side.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

The gleam of light from the shutter still shone white and clear on the golden coverlet of the bed, picking out clearly and distinctly the tall sloping R of the monogram.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier