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as in sloping
running in a slanting direction the sloped arrangement of the pictures along the staircase wall should follow the line of the banister

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sloped

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verb

past tense of slope
as in tilted
to set or cause to be at an angle they sloped our new driveway too steeply and now my car scrapes bottom whenever I back out onto the street

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Adjective
  • Shaw had been sidelined by a left oblique injury since the beginning of camp and had been slowly building up to game action, which culminated with his Cactus League debut Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Another is the Magic’s two key offensive players, Banchero and Franz Wagner, have missed extensive time this season with oblique muscle tears that prevented them from maintaining their conditioning and working on their shooting.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Wartime letters sent by my father to my mother at her family home in Chicago, written in his own hand on Navy letterhead, the precise print of an engineer, angled slightly to the right.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Midcentury tissue box covers feature clerestory windows, angled rooflines,and patterned concrete block designs.
    Eric Noll, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Rookie Dalton Knecht, a glaring defensive liability at times, has seen his minutes decrease over the past month as the Lakers have leaned more into the defense of Max Christie, Gabe Vincent and Cam Reddish on the perimeter.
    Jovan Buha, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The Knicks, by contrast, leaned heavily on their starters once again.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Sloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloped. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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