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the date slips
noun
The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
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The single person, fully clothed at the start of the date, slips backstage to de-robe.
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Inexplicably, the date slipped to July.
"It doesn't surprise me as an early adopter that the date slipped a little bit," he said.
But I didn't hear anyone talking about it at work, and the date slipped from my mind until the weekend before, because I was so caught up in getting adjusted to DC.
Bugs happen, stress levels rocket – it all goes bananas, and the dates slip up a bit.
If the launch date slips beyond 4 November, however, more fuel would be required to propel Cassini to its destination, and the spacecraft would be forced to eat into its precious fuel reserves.
With little fanfare, that date slipped until September.
And so the publication date slipped and slipped, and I chewed my fingernails.
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