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"Two or three times a week, there's an awful chemical smell, and I see a huge oil slick that seems to bubble up from the bottom of the river," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

McBurnie played a slick one-two with the increasingly dominant Gilmour, who had his shot saved.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That pie is almost a week old, slick mold is growing in the crust, it’ll make him sick.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Large stretches of the island's shoreline appear affected and "additional oil slicks extend far out to sea, further polluting and damaging this protected marine ecosystem", Noelle said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Oil has spilled into the Black Sea, creating slicks that cover several square miles of water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The threat to desalination plants posed by missiles or possible oil slicks should also not be underestimated.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

Instead of fitting wet-weather tyres to Alonso's car as he pitted with the track half-wet, half-dry, they fitted slicks.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

There’s something raggedly cool about AM versus the slicker products on the FM side.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sam Rockwell plays Frank, his slicker, more easygoing partner — he gives Cage’s tightly wound performance someone to ricochet off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Dr. Makary is slicker than a pharmaceutical salesman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Skiers have to re-don their skis at the top for one final climb, and Fatton was much slicker than Harrop, racing away to a lead she never looked likely to relinquish.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

He made no special preparation except to wear a heavy sweater and rain slicker.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

Back then, he walked into a humming, world championship–caliber operation, where everything had been optimized to the slickest, shiniest possible standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

What difference has the world’s biggest and slickest art fair organizer made?

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

Liz Truss has acknowledged that she is not the slickest media performer and what some senior Tories describe as her "wooden" style could impact on her prospects.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022

Trea Turner, the Dodgers’ slickest baserunner, explains how he developed the smoothest and coolest slide in baseball.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

White men in the crispest, slickest suits—black and navy and tweed, some with loosened ties and coats unbuttoned or cast aside over chairs.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Eventually, Giuliani appears in the flesh, his blond hair slicked back like his father’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

His hair slicked; his hands behind his back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Choose dishes that improve with a little time and chill — herby potato salad slicked with olive oil and dill, a lemon-bright bean salad, a vegetable-packed pasta salad studded with crunch.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

A childhood Liverpool fan, she used to run around the house in a replica shirt, her curly hair slicked back to resemble Spanish striker Fernando Torres.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

Rain had slicked the streets into shiny, reflective tunnels lined with skyscrapers whose tops disappeared into the mist.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

It's easy to see the oil slicking the surface and when I dip my hand in, it comes out streaked with oil.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

In winter, though, with black ice slicking the parking lot, he has no choice but to run the furnace.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

That extra fat fortifies them, slicking each tooth-like kernel so that it catches the gleam of the sun.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022

A few months ago, I noticed that the part of my hairline I’d been avoiding, relaxing, pushing, hiding, slicking back my entire life had quietly overtaken my timeline: sideburns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

He felt the sweat beading on his forehead, slicking his hands; he was terrified to keep going.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner