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Recent Examples of slinks
Anne slinks off with her husband.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Route 128 slinks through the folds of Anderson Valley like a slow river, past vineyards clinging to hillsides and orchards heavy with apple blossoms come spring.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Route 128 slinks through the folds of Anderson Valley like a slow river, past vineyards clinging to hillsides and orchards heavy with apple blossoms come spring.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slinks
Verb
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Pollan is understandably chary about the potential romanticism that lurks behind his conclusions.—
Charles Finch,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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In the American pop-culture feedback loop, at the football-movie intersection between sports and cinema and how the two inform and reflect each other, lurks a line delivery that lasts only a couple of seconds.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But some sunlight still sneaks through Earth’s atmosphere, bends around the planet and lands on the moon.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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Benedict is still all in with love, convincingly enough that Sophie sneaks back to her room, glowing and grinning, with the drawing of Our Cottage clutched in her hands.—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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That is when boards start re-rating risks, lenders start sharpening pencils and capex slips down the priority list.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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Hynes’ music slips between R&B, indie rock and orchestral pop, often within the same song — something built on feeling rather than definition.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Slinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slinks. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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