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slaloming

verb

present participle of slalom

as in weaving

to move suddenly aside or to and fro slalomed through the crowd with the ease of an Olympic skier

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Recent Examples of slaloming Photographed by Lucas Possiede Also slaloming down the runway was professional skateboarder Keegan Palmer (clothed in Golden Goose), as well as a number of players from Inter Milan and AC Milan. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026 Competitors then take the skins off their skis before slaloming down the descent to the finish line. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026 Parallel giant slalom requires speed and precision as riders race side-by-side downhill, slaloming around the gates on two separate quasi-identical courses. — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026

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Combat sequences, set in the Pacific theater and filmed in Australia, look expansive and authentic, weaving around hundreds of soldiers running and shouting and shooting at once.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
The process was particularly intricate, as each interlacing detail on the bodice had to be carefully constructed by weaving hundreds of meters of rouleau and while maintaining the tension and precision of the corsetry underneath.

— Shelby Wax, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of weaving

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Lastly, try ducking into Casey Rubber Stamps, founded in 1979, in the West Village, and a neighborhood fixture since 2003.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
The system lets robots choose suitable movements, such as stepping over objects, ducking under overhead barriers, or turning sideways to pass through narrow gaps.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of ducking

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The cheeky reference to Fielder’s doc earned a smile from Seyfried, though the actress continued dodging direct references to Holmes.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2026
This moment is different, and all the advice about dodging this dodgy issue is now wrong.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

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Starting and ending downtown, the course took runners in a zigzagging pattern as far south as 35th Street in Bronzeville, as far west as Damen Avenue on the Near West Side, and as far north as West Sheridan Road in East Lakeview.

— Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

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