slots

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 Were there a Mount Rushmore for sneakers, the Nike Air Force 1 would be guaranteed one of its four slots. — Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 28 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 All three of the Heat’s two-way contract slots are currently filled with guard Tre Donaldson, Goldin and forward Keshad Johnson. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 For us, 403 applicants became 21 hires on 422 interviewer hours, 20 per hire, absorbed by pre-committed slots. — Pradeep Prasana Kanagaraj, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 In 2026, no primarily Brazilian production made the prestigious competition slots at either Cannes, Berlin or Venice. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 This full-length mirror cabinet displays over 100 pieces via specialized hooks, earring racks, ring slots, and shelves. — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026 Now, as Luminate points out, the broadcasters have more limited budget ranges and programming slots, as well as more straightforward viewership data. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slots
Noun
  • Adrià describes a world filtered through adolescence, where people, places and situations can appear idealized, magical or unsettling.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Even as the list has now slimmed down to six titles, the breadth of the places plotted out on the short list remains capacious as ever.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Wall niches display fragrances, books and Crivelli’s found items, such as bark or a feather he’s collected during travels.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • On a map, Newfoundland is a vast, asymmetrical island, cloven by bays and inlets, semi-detached to appendages of land deformed by ancient glaciers scraping over it, leaving glacial striations, grooves and gouges on its granite face.
    — Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
  • While hunter-gatherers from that time are known to have used their teeth as tools — holding, breaking, stretching things — none of those uses matched the grooves on these teeth.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Nussbaum and her colleagues began passing out leaflets at Boston subway and bus stops to women heading to their jobs at downtown office buildings.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The jobs nobody wants The job of deciding whether a Florida family can buy groceries this month or keep its health coverage falls to DCF’s frontline caseworkers, known as economic self-sufficiency specialists.
    — Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Slots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slots. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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