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slough

[sluhf] / slʌf /




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Kelly has run the slough exhibition three times since 2014.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

It probably gets into the water as bits slough off when the bottle is squeezed or gets exposed to heat.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

Wintergreen sneered obnoxiously, resting his filthy GI shoe on his spade and lounging back in a surly slough against the wall of one of the deep, square holes it was his military specialty to dig.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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