| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| NOUN: | A tricky precarious situation, especially one that leads gradually but inexorably to disaster: “[Without] a clear boundary to confer personhood on a human being … we approach a slippery slope that ends in the disposal of inconvenient people” (Steven Pinker, New York Times Magazine November 2, 1997).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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