slacken
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Listeners might feel their pulse slacken as they settle into the music’s soothing triple meter, a recurring cycle of one-two-threes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
You absolutely must allow your lower face to slacken naturally, which may be right around the moment Kardashian parts her artificially plumped lips to make a heroic attempt at acting.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025
The report cautioned that it is too early to determine what caused the rate to slacken.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
And, with the tight job market starting to slacken, some predict 2024 will be the year employers finally clamp down.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
He hurried away from them with a shiver of eerie alarm and did not slacken his pace until the soil crumbled to dry sand beneath his feet and they had been left behind.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing slacken
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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