glacial
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Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Councils can drag everything to a glacial pace, just going round and round in circles,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
This collapse coincided with a period of major environmental disruption during the most recent glacial period of the late Pleistocene age.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
But that is banking on the court moving at its usual glacial pace.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
While Neanderthals lived in glacial times and were adapted to the cold, they penetrated no farther north than northern Germany and Kiev.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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