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slowly

[sloh-lee] / ˈsloʊ li /




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We duck into the nearest deli—the kind with a handwritten soup board and a line that moves just slowly enough to read it twice.

From Salon

“The public is slowly waking up to what it will mean for our sleepy little part of the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As insurers and employers moved slowly, patients bypassed the system entirely, turning to cash payments.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a government source describes it, "the perennial problem is getting to the right position far too slowly. Then, you get absolutely no credit, because it looks like you have been forced there."

From BBC

As the sheets curved into dome-like shapes, the hidden image slowly appeared, showing that changes in shape and visual appearance can be coordinated within one material.

From Science Daily