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as in to flow
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
at this point the river slides along its banks with barely a ripple
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as in flood
a large mass especially of snow, ice, dirt, or rocks descending from a high place
The slide caused by the storm made the road impassable.
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Recent Examples of slide
Law Murray, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
The 10-year Treasury yield slid on Tuesday, as investors digested President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and a slew of new executive orders.
—Alex Harring,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2025
The second slide appeared to zoom in on a blurry pic of the couple’s first child dressed in a warm winter snowsuit with a hood, with little Jack’s face obscured.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Could that be enough to slide LaMelo Ball into the All-Star Game?
—Law Murray, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
The 10-year Treasury yield slid on Tuesday, as investors digested President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and a slew of new executive orders.
—Alex Harring,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
Open seasonally from May to September, the park features exhilarating water slides like the Frantic Atlantic, Pirate’s Passage, and Nature’s Revenge—all ranked by level of thrill.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2025
The second slide appeared to zoom in on a blurry pic of the couple’s first child dressed in a warm winter snowsuit with a hood, with little Jack’s face obscured.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slide
Verb
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Sometimes, he's gotten invited to inaugural balls; other times, he's been able to sneak in.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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And with a personal training certification and a degree in kinesiology, a wellness focus often sneaks into many aspects of my personal and professional life.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
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When temperatures started heating up, ice caps began melting, causing water from the Appalachian Mountains to flow into the Apalachicola River and eventually all the way down to the coast.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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Money flowed away from tanks and submarines and went instead to hospitals and pensions.—
Josh Holder,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Emma Corrin — who plays Anna Harding, best friend to Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter — had to film a scene covered in rats that crawled on their bare chest.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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The investigators will lay out a grid at the scene, typically with string, and literally crawl around on their hands and knees in search of footprints or other clues.—
Adiel Kaplan,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for the Palisades, Eaton, Hughes, Franklin and Bridge fire burn scars.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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Showers could linger into Tuesday, spawning flood watches in areas where the Palisades, Franklin, Eaton, Bridge, and Hughes wildfires burned.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The 10-year slipped from a high near 4.8% back to 4.6% over a few days.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the quarter, Apple slipped to third place — with about a sixth of the market, according to a Counterpoint research featured by Bloomberg.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Alex Caruso, who is 6-5, added three steals off the bench, and of course,e Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, an MVP candidate, is a 6-6 point guard who glided his way to 40 points with two steals.—
Joe Vardon,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Alka-Seltzer Plus (1993) Lynch directed two commercials for Alka-Seltzer Plus cold medicine, one of which has a striking balletic opening image of hockey players gliding on a rink in a darkened arena.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Mortgage rates have crept back over 7% to start the new year in a potentially troublesome development for the housing market that has struggled under the weight of higher interest rates for two years that have priced people out of the market and slowed sales to 20-year lows.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Jan. 2025
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The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The coastal city of Rancho Palos Verdes suffered sudden movement from a decades-old complex of slow-moving landslides last fall, twisting roads and putting multimillion-dollar homes on the brink of destruction.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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The defending champs are once again landslide favorites to win the World Series.—
Jim Bowden,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Slide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slide. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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