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as in snuck
to move about in a sly or secret manner
slid gently into his seat without anyone else in church noticing
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as in flowed
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
at this point the river slides along its banks with barely a ripple
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Recent Examples of slid
Saudi Arabia's oil revenue slid 24% in the first half of 2025 from a year earlier.
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Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2025
Takaichi, whose party commands a minority government and has slid in successive elections, has little room for error during her tenure.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Gold slid below $4,000 an ounce, extending losses from the worst rout in over a decade as progress on a US-China trade deal sapped haven demand.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Johnson went first and slid the puck through Silovs’ pads.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Jaylon Moore has since slid in Simmons’ place.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The broken glass happened because Mako couldn't stop himself while running on the hardwood floor and slid into the cabinet.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
At the intersection with 16th Street, the car slid up over a curb, through the grass and into a tree.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
According to the 911 call sheet, a car slid off the road and rolled several times.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2025
Takaichi, whose party commands a minority government and has slid in successive elections, has little room for error during her tenure.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Gold slid below $4,000 an ounce, extending losses from the worst rout in over a decade as progress on a US-China trade deal sapped haven demand.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Johnson went first and slid the puck through Silovs’ pads.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Jaylon Moore has since slid in Simmons’ place.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
The broken glass happened because Mako couldn't stop himself while running on the hardwood floor and slid into the cabinet.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
At the intersection with 16th Street, the car slid up over a curb, through the grass and into a tree.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
According to the 911 call sheet, a car slid off the road and rolled several times.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slid
Verb
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Specialty cocktails flowed throughout the night, while Unfortunate Portrait created live custom sketches, bringing a playful touch.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the past two years, historic droughts have left wide dry patches where deep channels once flowed.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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The memories of those late-game collapses crept in when the Sabres’ 4-2 lead became 4-3 early in the third period.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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But, throughout the decades, housing developments crept toward wildlands, the climate warmed, and fires increasingly escalated into unstoppable urban conflagrations.—
Ingfei Chen,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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When Mumy was just a kid, Lockhart snuck him and his TV sister Cartwright into shows at the Whisky a Go Go during the height of the 1960s psychedelic scene.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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Shares of Honeywell have slipped 4% this year.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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Modern Wall Street has killed just about everything cool that walks or crawled at one time or another.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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The van’s driver then crawled out of his vehicle’s window, crossed over a median and was instantly struck by a car speeding in the opposite direction, which was broadcast by the news helicopter following the chase.—
Brian Niemietz,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 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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Chiles glided around the dance floor in the Mia T-Bar heels by International Dance Shoes in a tan shimmer color.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Debates have raged in the busy industry program, standby ticket queues have snaked outside venues for the hottest premieres and the stars — in their droves — have been out in force and on major charm offensives, with distributors using the fest to launch both awards and release campaigns.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Tree roots and ivy creepers have also snaked through the stonework.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Slid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slid. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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