slots

noun

plural of slot
as in places
a situation or activity for which a person or thing is best suited called an old friend to see if he could find a slot for his college-age son in the construction business that summer

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Recent Examples of slots This is the second time the Coffee Crawl company has run this promotion in Sacramento, on the heels of an earlier crawl this summer that quickly filled all of its slots. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026 The museum has been giving visitors 40-minute viewing slots and has also banned photography in hopes of moving queues. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Bulk carriers have faced similar pressure, with BIMCO reporting bulker transits down 22 percent year over year since the beginning of July as vessels competed for limited slots. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 The reason Dancing With the Stars doesn’t air live for its West Coast audience stems back to local news and the coveted primetime programming slots. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 Drake is also gearing up to hit the road in support of his ICEMAN, HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR trifecta — which topped the top three slots of the Billboard 200 in May — next year. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026 The legislation followed growing complaints that brokers were obtaining reservations at Los Angeles municipal courses and reselling them, often advertising slots through social media, including the Korean messaging app KakaoTalk. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026 But considering the child of someone whose transformational philanthropy may fund scholarships for low-income students for generations is a far cry from earmarking admissions slots simply because a parent attended the university. — Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 Geekom says the system supports up to 256GB of memory on those two slots. — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slots
  1. places
  2. niches
  3. grooves
  4. jobs
Noun
  • Polymarket is one of the places—perhaps the only one—that question is being answered in practice.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Food, in many places all over the world, is the language of love, and what better way to experience travel than through local ingredients and dishes?
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of places
Noun
  • There, trenches, benches, niches and other architectural devices are carved into the floor and walls—adding to the drama of the paintings covering the walls.
    — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026
  • When the catastrophe wiped out their massive non-avian relatives, the bird lineages that survived were positioned to take advantage of newly vacant ecological niches.
    — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of niches
Noun
  • The trauma of Cathy’s youth is not that different from the story of Adam and Charles, warped by their father’s expectations and the grooves of rivalry carved after years of circling each other.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The bezel, for example, showcases grooves reminiscent of the hood of a Ferrari.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of grooves
Noun
  • Staff reductions are expected to be brutal, and with so many duplicative roles across HBO Max and Paramount+, many talented executives will lose their jobs.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Companies that grow around the university can create jobs and opportunities well beyond its campus.
    — Michael Simas, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of jobs

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“Slots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slots. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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