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slip

(slip)

1. To move out of a customary place; to dislocate (e.g., an intervertebral disk).

2. To slide into or on top of.

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That evening Green Gables hummed with preparations for the following day; but in the twilight Anne slipped away.

Obstinacy of a sort seized upon me, and I did my best to arrest the thing, but it slipped away, and kept turning over and over, so that I could not grasp it, and made a sad spectacle of myself with my awkwardness.

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The one thing--the one person-- her mind had rested on in its dull weariness, had slipped away from her, and peevish misery filled her eyes with tears.

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But as the mice were going over, the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all fell in and were drowned.

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Tip slipped away from the girls and followed swiftly after the Soldier with the Green Whiskers.

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she slipped away before Miss Emily or I could speak to her.

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IRELAND lock Devin Toner admits a third consecutive Six Nations title may have slipped away following defeat in Paris.

We're relying on favours now; FRANCE .....10 IRELAND......9

The opportunity to do so is slipping away and may have slipped away within another year or two.