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  1. slipsnoun

    the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slips in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slips in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of slips in a Sentence

  1. Gina McCarthy:

    I cannot imagine what additional information the administrator might want from scientists for him to understand that, giving pink slips to scientists across the federal government, including 43% of EPA scientists, and proposing to eliminate the US Climate Global Research Program in its entirety makes one question who this administration will rely on for scientific research and facts.

  2. Georges Bernanos:

    I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

  3. Randolph Silliman Bourne:

    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.

  4. Elizabeth Warren:

    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.

  5. Neville Agnew:

    It was terrifying, twelve men, chanting and carrying it up the ramp. I said: if one slips, it will slide and will kill somebody. They said: 'Don't worry'.

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