But she was unwilling to defend the idea, slinking away when the inevitable attacks came.

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But this deer is frozen as she stares at the Royal Bengal slinking past dry shrubs nearby.

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But I hope instead of slinking home to hide, Armstrong steps up to fill the void with continued cancer advocacy.

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While I was slinking into my late teens, the playlist of that low-budget station felt like it was stuck in my middle-school years.

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When night falls on Harar, the labyrinth alleyways of the walled Old Town fall silent, and the shadowy form of a hyena slinking through the narrow streets is not an uncommon sight.

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While HP and Dell are slugging it out, Jobs is slinking in from the high end, looking to get his hands on an even bigger share of the money spent on notebooks, even if he doesn't compete for the unit sales crown.

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It remains one of the most despicable of crimes, both because the killing and wounding of innocents are central to its purpose, and because its perpetrators can so easily do their work without having to confront their enemies, or their victims, before slinking off to safety.

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