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Recent Examples of slimy What Happens If Cilantro Goes Bad? Cilantro will become slimy and dark in color. Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024 For Lucca, Cronenberg’s trademark anatomical derangements — all those slimy, mutant body organs, guts and intestines spilling out of his characters like slinky toys — are how the director makes a character’s anxieties manifest: the deliquescing body as a metaphor for spiritual imbalance. Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024 The doctor is still winding the slimy material around his wrist and hand, and the separate layers of material have started to merge into one another, forming a single white mass, which the doctor smooths and molds. David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024 And while the phrase snail essence may conjure images of slime, rest assured: the ingredient is silky, rather than slimy. Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for slimy 

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“Slimy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slimy. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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