Piyush Goyal

As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.

Indian Politician

Kyle Hill

We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.

American Author

Hugh Dennis

I travelled across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway when I was 18. I didnt realise how long the journey was - four days - and I didnt buy enough food. All I had was four slabs of Philadelphia cream cheese and some biscuits.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

In those rare cases in which you have a dull knife and cooking to do, but no ceramic in sight, the top edge of a rolled-down car window will work just as well. Even a smooth stone or slab of concrete outside can work in a pinch.

American Chef

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

American Architect

Anthony Doerr

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

American Writer

Michael Sheen

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

Welsh Actor

David Linley

My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.

British Royalty

Hanya Yanagihara

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

American Novelist

Keeley Hawes

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

English Actress

A 'slab' often refers to a large piece of hard material for construction or art.

Material Matters

'Slab' suggests thickness and solidity, differentiating it from thinner items like 'sheet' or 'plate'.

Thickness Implied

While usually flat, 'slab' can still be applied to slightly irregular surfaces if thick and large.

Not Always Flat

'Slab' in surfing refers to thick, powerful waves that break in shallow water over a reef or rock shelf.

Surfing Slang

Surfing a 'slab' can be dangerous due to the forceful nature and shallow water.

Wave Warning

Use of 'slab' in sports contexts is usually for experienced participants, hinting at its difficulty.

Not Beginner Friendly

When referring to food or other consumables, 'slab' suggests a generous, often excessive portion.

Quantity Emphasis

Using 'slab' for food can be informal, often used in casual or humorous contexts.

Informal Food Reference

'Slab' in the building context can refer to horizontal layers, like floors or the base.

Construction Jargon

In construction, a 'slab' is fundamental for stability, indicating its importance in structure.

Base Significance

 They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes

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 with this sort of evidence that supports this sort of thinking. So biologically, there are plenty of species that display banding or patterns, warning patterns, to either be cryptical in the water or warn against being attacked, not the least of which is the pilot fish which spends a big slab of its life

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 many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through. They become mobile, floating ecosystems. Even in the coldest seas, icebergs are always melting,

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 In the polar regions, we see how this small local process effects global movement. In the arctic and antarctic, where ice slabs decorate the water's surface, there's little temperature difference between surface and deeper waters. It's all pretty cold. But salinity differs,

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 to help people get to know their neighbors, even when their homes are organized in the vertical dimension. So we invented a way to use balconies as the new social connectors. The shapes of the floor slabs vary slightly and they transition as you go up the tower.

Buildings that blend...

 But what we're finding around the world, over and over again, is, if you build a toilet and you leave it there, it doesn't get used. People reuse it for a slab for their home. They sometimes store grain in it. I've even seen it used for a chicken coop.

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 The periodic table is instantly recognizable. It's not just in every chemistry lab worldwide, it's found on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and shower curtains. But the periodic table isn't just another trendy icon. It's a massive slab of human genius,

The genius of...

 these are clearly ways of harnessing natural energy sources to save the labour of our own muscles and the most important part is a pair of cylindrical slabs the mill stones which turn over each other and grind that grain into

How to rebuild the world...

 have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the

Palenque and the Ancient...

 awesome destructive power under the water tail slabs are used to stun the herring some fish come too quickly and escape back to the safety of the shoal

Slab

A flat, thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid materials.

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The act of surfing a large wave.

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A large amount of a specific thing or in a specific form.

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The foundation of a building or structure.

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