Synonyms for slip away
slip away

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1. slip awayverb

   To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed

   I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.

   Synonyms:
   sneak off, slide off, slip off

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1. slip away, steal away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak outverb

   leave furtively and stealthily

   "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"

   Synonyms:
   slide by, glide by, steal away, slip by, go by, sneak away, go along, sneak off, sneak out, elapse, lapse, pass

2. elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go alongverb

   pass by

   "three years elapsed"

   Synonyms:
   run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, continue, occur, die, sneak off, snuff it, excrete, turn over, go, spend, fall back, recidivate, fade, hand, legislate, happen, egest, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, drop dead, overstep, transcend, make it, authorize, sneak out, regress, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, play along, expire, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, go under, come about, keep, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, glide by, sneak away, extend, decease, fall, pass, proceed, pass by, clear, exit, conk, travel by, buy the farm, relapse, pass along, steal away, retrogress, slide by, go along, surpass, guide, backslide, pass on

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1. slip away

   Synonyms:
   escape, glide away, slide away

2. slip away

   Synonyms:
   sneak, skulk, slink, steal away, slink away

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1. Otto Friedrichsen:

   By taking part in the consolidation, you effectively buy a pile of steel, but customers are not loyal in this business. So the big risk is that you are left with extra shipping capacity, while price-sensitive customers slip away, i don't think acquisitions is the way to go.

2. Mark Twain:

   Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

3. Jill Biden:

   For the loved ones left behind : I know all too well. I know what it's like to not be there when it happens. I know what it's like when you are there holding their hands, there's a look in their eye and they slip away, i know that when you stare at that empty chair around the kitchen table it brings it all back no matter how long ago it happened, as if it just happened that moment.

4. Todd McLellan:

   I can see one slip away but not two. That's unacceptable, that’s two games in a row that played out almost identical in a lot of different ways. And there’s no reason why we should let either of them get away from us.

5. Mike Conley:

   We'll hopefully be able to get our minds focused on business and not let this one slip away like we did last year.