slow
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"Had Claudia Winkleman wanted to carry on with her chat show, it could have been a slow burn," he reflects.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
When measles started circulating last year, Kennedy was slow to endorse the MMR shot and hawked ineffective measles treatments.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Employers are “looking and saying these increases were so high for so many years, would they please just slow down,” Wardrip said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The absence of changes in fecal production was especially notable because semaglutide can slow digestion and cause constipation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
You turn in a slow circle, taking in the washed-out yellow-and-green signs pointing to the camping showers.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
India’s slower trajectory owes at least as much to bureaucratic drag, corruption and the absence of sustained central planning around core technologies as to reservations, as India’s quotas are called.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some of that will be spent on the robotaxis and humanoid robots that underpin Tesla’s valuation, although progress has been slower than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The researchers estimate that approximately 25% of the total solar wind exposure recorded at the Chang'e 5 landing site involved this slower flow.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
But negotiations with Canada have proceeded at a slower pace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
For weeks it hadn’t rained and the river looked a bit slower, a mite shallower.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Overall prices at the supermarket are rising at their slowest rate in nearly two years.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
For now, it's the slowest of retreats from the States, the memory of those early days in New York and New Jersey now dimmed, the hope of the 4-0 win over Bolivia crushed to bits.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The U.S. is experiencing one of the slowest rates of hiring in history, especially during a period of economic expansion.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Sales at U.S. fast-food burger chains increased 1.5% last year, the slowest growth among any of 10 restaurant categories tracked by Technomic, other than pizza and sandwiches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
I recall it in the slowest motion, as though in a dream.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
As growth slows, the company has fewer opportunities to invest in its business through new policies, and the capital needs to go somewhere—such as shareholder returns, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“When everything calms down and slows down a little bit, I need to get my hearing checked out,” Ganfield said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
The observations confirmed that a young star's accretion rate, or the speed at which it gathers material, naturally slows as it ages.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
This drags on the observatory and slows it down as it orbits the Earth, lowering its altitude.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The bus slows and takes an exit into some random town.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
OL slowed the growth of the abnormal fibroblasts, encouraged them to undergo apoptosis, and reduced their release of inflammatory cytokines.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
It seems the diagnosis hasn’t slowed her down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Oil prices again climbed Thursday, with Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, up four percent at $97.80 a barrel and bringing back fears of spiralling consumer prices and slowed growth globally.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The UK rate of inflation has slowed to 2.6% in the year to June, driven down by lower fuel prices, according to new figures.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The river opened up this far down, and the mud and water slowed as it took up more space.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
But if they raise interest rates to tame inflation they risk slowing growth further.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Putting rates up makes borrowing more expensive, giving people and businesses less money to spend, reducing demand for goods and slowing price rises.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Yet tech companies are showing no signs of slowing down as they release more powerful AI tools and rope in new customers in government, healthcare and other industries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“In the face of rising competition from Chinese brands, Volvo lost market share in Europe in H1, and we do not see the wave of new competition slowing down.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
They constantly adjusted to the changing conditions, slowing down, speeding up, turning in various directions.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
