slipped

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Cars get recalled all the time for small things that slipped through the design and testing phases.

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(heraldry, of a plant) With part of the stalk displayed.

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adjective

(heraldry, of a plant) With part of the stalk displayed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slipped.

adjective

(heraldry, of a plant) With part of the stalk displayed.

Example sentences

Cars get recalled all the time for small things that slipped through the design and testing phases.

State and have never slipped on Ice This wasn't winter, there was no ice, and it was low-speed urban driving.

Most of the bugs that have slipped through are as a result of lack of coverage.

Before she arrived at her destination, her car slipped on the icy highway and crashed head-on with another car, killing both drivers.

I have to ignore the race of the men who beat my uncle until he slipped into a coma.

That's the case where none of the 14 have slipped my mind by the time I get back around.

Having an intern look at just some of our content would leave us wide open to legal action from anything that slipped through the net.

State and have never slipped on Ice and RearEnded someone.

Thanks, I read the article but this sentence must have slipped my attention.

However, time and resources have slipped away from me and I've simply not gotten to it and my interest in the project has waned.

The data for that was 2006-2008 era, when I studied this more closely, however, I find it unlikely either of those two has significantly slipped.

I'm surprised that slipped past Wired...

Quote examples

They're just slipped in by the hosts (and clearly with the approval of the production team in some circumstances) as a (quite sinister) wink-and-nod to appear chummy with viewers who "think like them".

"Think of the artists" was a great pitch given that the report is penned by a Pirate Party MEP (and so it's easy to believe that the entire report is pro-consumer/anti-artist), and so that change slipped in.

I clicked on the drowning boy about 6 seconds after he slipped out from his tube, and the site's response was "Just splashing around, keep looking." Then I tried it a few more times.

They're nearly all acute injury cases - "I slipped and fell at work, and now my back's out and I can't work for six months" and they hobble their way into the doctor's office leaning on a cane when less than an hour ago they were doing heavy yard work (or jumping on said trampoline!) with no difficulty.