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slips
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slipsnoun
the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
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lisps
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slips in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slips in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of slips in a Sentence
The House is about to vote on a budget deal -- a deal negotiated behind closed doors that slips in a provision that would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system, these are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs.
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
Common sense tells us that lifting heavy loads, awkward posture, vigorous activity and slips/trips/falls could cause back pain, these scenarios are commonly encountered in everyday experience, making it easier to tie the two together as cause and effect.
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
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- زلاتArabic
- slipIndonesian
- gliderSwedish
- 单Chinese
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