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- verb Present participle of
slipstream .
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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'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
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Something both fresh and traditional, slipstreaming another royal wedding.
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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
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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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