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  • verb Present participle of slipstream.

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Examples

  • These programs support slipstreaming, which is the ability to embed the latest service packs, drivers, language packs and even a few third-party applications into your Windows installation.

    PC Plus 2009

  • These programs support slipstreaming, which is the ability to embed the latest service packs, drivers, language packs and even a few third-party applications into your Windows installation.

    PC Plus 2009

  • All this suggests, according to some analysts, that Chirac may seek to solve his various political imbroglios over Iraq by "slipstreaming" behind Blair.

    Chirac's Great Game 2007

  • Something weird was going on in the 80's and 90's, a weirdness that cleared the path for all the genre-bending, slipstreaming, science-fantasy mashups that have made it onto the shelves in the past few years.

    MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

  • Meanwhile, literary authors have started "slipstreaming"—to borrow Bruce Sterling's term—writing books with sci-fi scenarios.

    The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • I wish MS would offer the ISOs with integrated service packs to normal folks, since slipstreaming has been broken.

    Windows Vista SP2 Available For Download | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • 'You helped give a shape to slipstreaming time with a wave of your hand'

    Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right 2011

  • Something both fresh and traditional, slipstreaming another royal wedding.

    The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011

  • One woman who might have the answer is Margaret Atwood, whose "The Handmaid's Tale" 1985 was an early example of such slipstreaming, set in a repulsive patriarchal theocracy.

    The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • Ms. Atwood is hardly alone among slipstreaming authors in her downbeat vision of the future.

    The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

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