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With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Improvements to Los Angeles International Airport have been plodding: The People Mover train’s opening date has been delayed again to June 2026.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

The 25-year-old company has long conducted research on hardware and developed missions in a methodical and, at times, plodding manner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

That 1973 informant report ignited what had been, up until that point, a plodding and inconclusive investigation into what had already been known about King’s murder.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025

Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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