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In September, high tides and powerful wave activity from Hurricane Marie buffeted the San Clemente coastline, temporarily halting Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink service after more erosion and slope damage was spotted near the train tracks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The runway slope and width create what’s known as a crowned runway illusion that distorts a pilot’s perception of height and distance during their final approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

A steep slope makes water move quickly, while a shallow slope produces slower flow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lo, the downward slope of 2026—already, by this writing, a record year in value for IPOs and mergers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

I wonder—if I came here long enough, mapped every step and slope, would I feel safe?

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The loss of glacier ice can also destabilise mountain slopes and increase the risk of landslides in some places - which can lead to flash flooding in extreme cases, as seen in Nepal in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Researchers at the University of Montpellier's Laboratory of Geography and Land Planning have developed evacuation routes that account for slopes, obstacles, walking speeds, and potential bottlenecks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

All of the dwellings along the beachfront stretch sit on land that slopes toward the ocean, providing jaw-dropping views over the water.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Furthermore, image errors on steep slopes and high-precision monitoring over vast and complex terrain remain an international challenge,” the embassy said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

On a rocky mountain pass, on the southernmost slopes of Mount Belly, the witch-queen reined in her goat-drawn chariot and stopped and sniffed the chilly air.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

At peak times on Saturday, just before sunset, the narrow two-way street to Duryea’s is filled with cars as high-heeled and preppy patrons walk along the sloped grassy shoulder of the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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 continued to refine the shape through the 1980s, gradually easing the “wedge shape” jacket into a more relaxed silhouette with sloped shoulders and lower lapels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

Upstream, it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

From that restaurant Cardoso could look out the window and see sloping hills and Lucas’ Wagyu cows raised there on the farm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, the terminal has a dramatic, glass-walled facade with a sloping roofline that recalls a wingspan.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

That is the term structures of the VIX futures and of the Cboe volatility indexes are sloping strongly upwards.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The electric letters glow white against a black wall, their message spelled out with odd capitalizations, in Ms. Emin’s distinctive, sloping script.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The shelter—a basic, three-sided affair with a sloping roof—looked crowded, and a dozen or so tents were scattered around the open ground.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson