ponderous
Example Sentences
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Some of the biggest obstacles facing Germany’s military planners are intangible: ponderous procurement rules, onerous data protection laws, and other regulations forged in a more peaceful era.
He also told confidants that he wanted Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to stop acting like a ponderous judge and to take decisive action.
From New York Times
If even this ponderous pace continues — a questionable assumption in today’s parlous markets — it will take two years to reach the $6 trillion range.
From New York Times
Plucked from the base of a ponderous fountain in Paris’ Place de la Concorde, he’s a cast-iron spectacle with an odd cap of gilded foam.
From Los Angeles Times
They fell to Sweden, 3-0, in their opening match and seemed tentative and ponderous at various points thereafter.
From New York Times
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