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slip

[slip] / slɪp /


NOUN
loss of foothold
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NOUN
decrease
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VERB
lessen, return to a lower quality
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Offord described Reform's slip into third place as "irritating" but said it would not "derail" their objectives.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The report did not slip past Weiss, of course.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

A public-benefit corporation’s mission can slip if the board loses focus, said Dammann, who has studied them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“And so whatever any part of the Federal Reserve does, if they slip up, if they stumble on supervision or on payments, that reflects on our institutional credibility,” said Warsh.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

I tuck the final letter in the back of the book and slip it under the mattress.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The challenger then slipped to the canvas, briefly raising hopes of a knockdown among the home crowd.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

He slipped on the back steps last winter, and we both pretended it didn’t scare us, but he could have just as easily slipped on another stairwell.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

One minister told me they'd had to tell their private office not to arrange for them to be "slipped" , from going to the Commons in the evening to see backbenchers.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Outside of tech, stock futures were mixed, with futures for the S&P 500 flat, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 0.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Late at night, when the fire was only a few glowing coals and Gran was snoring, I slipped out of bed and sat at the spinning wheel.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Nearly 200 nations are gathering in Armenia on Monday for critical negotiations as governments come under pressure to salvage a landmark nature pact whose goals are slipping out of reach.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Halloween was a chance to embrace her wild imagination, slipping into a character and world she could fully embody, even if it was only for a night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Survey respondents see growth slipping back thereafter, to 2.1% or 2.2% for the rest of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Norris was in a position to make a legitimate move, but they came together, pirouetted in tandem, Piastri into the barriers and out of the race and Norris slipping down to eighth.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

He was slipping along as if he were walking on porcupines.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

When we slipt, you would lift us up, and establish us by your counsels; we should march with sure steps in the rough paths of virtue.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle

He himself, thinking it was Healy, slipt quietly by, for he did not want to be recognised, as the carrier often came to his master's, and might have betrayed him.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe

Any moderate number of discs, similarly cut, may be slipt over one another, and only a sector of each is left visible.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney

He's gone, my pretty ...! slipt through my fingers like a bird! upfled to his own native skies, and yet whenas I think on him, I can not choose but weepe....

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

Sprightly and active, thou the other day, Didst fill thy station in this world of cares; In life’s fair morn, thy soul hath slipt away, From its delusions, and a thousand snares!

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo


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