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She slides across a patch of ice as she hits the asphalt.
NEWYORKER: Indianapolis (Highway 74)
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You can, for example, cast a spell to create a patch of ice on the ground, causing other characters in the game to slip over.
ECONOMIST: Monitor
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Some of these features will merely assist the driver by, for example, pointing out a patch of black ice around the next bend.
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They hit a rough patch off the ice when Greg Jamison was unable to pull together the funds and investors he needed to purchase the team before a deadline with the city of Glendale expired.
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At the edge of the grayish patch he gave the ice a bonk with the butt of his gun.
NEWYORKER: Tenth of December
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The only serious accident I've had in my life didn't involve a distraction at all, but a patch of unexpected black ice and a sudden crosswind that sent me fishtailing at 70 m.p.h. off the interstate into an Iowa ditch filled, thankfully, with two feet of snow.
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