slough

Aiello, who has monitored environmental conditions at the slough for more than a decade, said he was shocked by the results.

But consider adding on a scrub and sloughing off a layer or two of skin — it’s my favorite way to enter the new year.

At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.

At the same time, there is growing concern about the health and environmental consequences of microplastics — the bits of degraded plastic that slough off as the product ages, or is used, or washed.

Motherhood has made Slate gentler on herself, sloughing off feelings of foolishness, self-criticism and self-doubt.