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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
Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Trump made inroads with Latinos in 2024, but that has slid backward.
—NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
Clemson's slide into irrelevance has been one of the bigger stories of college football this fall.
—Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Verb
Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Trump made inroads with Latinos in 2024, but that has slid backward.
—NPR, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
Schwarz also resurrected the drums and a slide solo from the middle of the original production and repurposed them in the final minute of the new version.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
Clemson's slide into irrelevance has been one of the bigger stories of college football this fall.
—Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slide
Verb
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Brissett and the Cardinals responded immediately, marching 74 yards in 11 plays before Brissett snuck one across at the goal line.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Tibetan parents, fathers mostly, also snuck into India to leave their children at the school.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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As Snell continued to tire and miss his spots, Toronto’s opportunities kept flowing.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Drawings of the Duffield Cave, as seen in the YouTube video, show that the section has a narrow entrance, then curves upward before flowing left, dropping down again and bending right before angling back up to a larger chamber.—
Mark Gray,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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His fur was singed and bitten, his arm broken, and his mouth crawling with maggots.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Amazon has already taken steps in recent months to prevent external AI agents from crawling its website, including those developed by OpenAI, Google and Meta.—
Ashley Capoot,Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In addition to preserving natural ecosystems and the sustainable fisheries that depend on them, reefs may help to protect coastlines from storms and floods, which will become ever more urgent as climate change and rising sea levels give rise to more dangerous storms.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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The death toll from heavy floods in central Vietnam has risen to 13, the government said Friday, as residents of the flooded city of Hoi An started cleanup operations as the water levels began to subside.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Women’s Power Stride Tab Socks 3-pack Designed with training in mind, this three-pack of no-show socks boasts an interior grip that keeps them from slipping during use.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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Messi picked up the ball from his compatriot Rodrigo De Paul in midfield and burst toward the backpedaling Nashville back line before slipping the ball outside to Luis Suárez.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Porter, who was wearing forest-green DaddyGoFish waders, glided into the waist-deep rapids and walked a line between them, periodically dipping small plastic bottles into the water and then depositing them into a mesh bag.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Other mammals — like flying squirrels and flying lemurs — can only glide, despite their names.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Domestically, the president is also navigating creeping inflation that is threatening his party’s prospects in the midterm elections, with Democrats staking their return to power on fears of an affordability crisis.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Oct. 2025
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But with Neo stepping into the household and taking on labor like housekeeping, job-seekers may have to compete with AI innovations creeping into the blue-collar world.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sliwa has hosted various radio talk shows for decades and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2021, losing in a landslide to current Democratic mayor Eric Adams.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The tragic death of the Sepulveda family patriarch calls his descendants back to Villa Sepulveda, a Spanish colonial manor in a coconut plantation; but a landslide traps the guests inside, transforming the funeral plans into a supernatural reckoning of sins.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Slide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slide. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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