slippy
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But for a needless first-half push by Will Rigg and some slippy late handling from Campbell Ridl and Will Goodrick-Clarke, the Chiefs could easily have had a four-try bonus point and the end-of-year top spot.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
That rating also means it’ll resist jets of water if you want to listen to tunes in the shower — it’s also “drop proof” if things get slippy.
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2022
The Nordmärke’s only downside is the slightly slippy top surface.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2018
For snowy, slippy days, add a traction device like Yaktrax to your shoes.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2016
Come on, Zeb, look lively with them pots; we’ve got ter git across ther island an’ back ez slippy ez we kin.”
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap
While many of us are treading carefully to avoid a slip in the frosty weather, scientists led by the University of Leicester have been investigating how to make surfaces even slippier!
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
I'm generally a a stickler for words and intentionality, so this all makes this inherently slippery slope even "slippier" when all of these arguments are posited.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
One contractor, Immunity Inc., founded by a former N.S.A. analyst, embarked on a slippier slope.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
The question of who owns a fossil gets slippier the further back one goes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
It was just as the gyptian had said: the little craft was stiffer, more responsive, and very much slippier through the water than she’d ever felt before.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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