The word slake has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 19 in “New Crime Novels from Louise Penny and Silvia Moreno-Garcia” by Sarah Weinman:
With her third novel, Megan Collins may have unlocked a new level of fictional discourse on the true-crime industrial complex. The Family Plot (Atria, 320 pp., $27) is dedicated to “the murderinos,” people who are borderline obsessed with true crime and have created a rich fandom surrounding the many podcasts, documentaries and books that slake true-crime appetites.
Daily Word Challenge
Can you correctly use the word slake in a sentence?
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