slow
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"Abuja is slow, slow in every way. People are very laid back," Lexy Mojo-Eyes, the dapper organiser of the fashion week, who cut his teeth in Lagos, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
After years of grinding out growth shop by shop, the brothers decided organic expansion was too slow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
In today’s housing market, traffic is so slow that he’s had to sweeten the deal by offering a hundred bucks to agents to hold an open house, he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Instead, they can become extremely slow while behaving collectively.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
He clicked his feet together, made a 180-degree turn, and began a slow march toward the door.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
“Consumer agents seem to have been a bit slower to take off in the West,” McPadden said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
But at nearly 0.3 seconds slower in qualifying, and with the pace Verstappen has shown all weekend, Hamilton's mindset on Saturday was to "just try my best to hold on to him tomorrow".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
In the meantime, passengers will have to take longer alternate routes or switch to slower buses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Higher berry intake was linked to slower increases in ventricular volume.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The morning slid past, each hour slower and emptier than the one before.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Average hourly wages rose 3% in September from a year earlier, the slowest rate of increase in several years and lower than the 3.1% economists had predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
On Wednesday, payroll firm ADP reported that US private sector hiring had bounced back strongly in September, after registering its slowest pace this year the month before.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
China's retail sales grew last month at their slowest pace since May, official data showed on Tuesday, as the country's leaders struggle to reverse a persistent slump in spending.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The school is adding nonbinding early action for the first time, and hopes to expedite its response timeline to regular decision applicants, since it was one of the slowest last year, Haynie said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
I recall it in the slowest motion, as though in a dream.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Young workers in the US are also struggling with a tight jobs market, external as hiring slows.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Released in August, the band’s most recent album, “Everything’s Falling,” is a snarling, noisy and melodic rock joyride that rarely, if ever, slows down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Officials also nudged up their projections for inflation and for the neutral rate, the setting that neither speeds up nor slows the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
It is a pattern seen across many industries in China, especially as economic growth slows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s pitch-black inside the cramped guardhouse, but my racing heart slows down a bit when Ma puts her hands on my shoulders.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
However, year-over-year sales growth slowed to 17% from 18% in August and 22% in July, an underwhelming result given September is the traditional peak season for China’s auto market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But bottlenecks have slowed delivery of critical weapons.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The gradual emergence of mazelike permitting processes further slowed more ambitious new refining projects, at least in some areas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
For now, progress has also been slowed by uncertainty surrounding the team's scientific funding.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
“We haven’t really slowed down enough to eat.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
One of the most important possibilities raised by the findings is that ImP itself could become a target for preventing or slowing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
U.S. stocks ended the week on an upswing after slowing jobs growth tempered expectations that the Federal Reserve will hike rates again later this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The problem is that hopes for AI profits are so elevated that higher financing and energy costs aren’t slowing investment plans, keeping the AI-driven parts of the economy red-hot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The RAC said price rises were "showing no signs of slowing, heaping more misery onto motorists".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
She only succeeds in slowing Marco’s heartbeat enough that he falls deeply asleep.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
