slough
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At the same time, there is growing concern about the health and environmental consequences of microplastics — the bits of degraded plastic that slough off as the product ages, or is used, or washed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024
While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Meaning, they tried to blast each other with powder, basically slough a mini avalanche or powder storm on top of each other.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 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
I had invented a quill pen out of a peacock feather, but stopped writing with it when I saw that it waved like a one-eyed slough plant.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Vocabulary lists containing slough
"Of Mice and Men"
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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