slow
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A painfully slow economic recovery followed in the 2010s.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
If you’re considering walking your cat, many who’ve done it offered the same tips: Start slow, don’t force anything and follow your cat’s lead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
By contrast, college-educated workers ages 22 to 34 years old have only seen worse unemployment in the past two decades during the pandemic and the economy’s slow rebound from the 2007-09 recession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Police were slow to react to an "exceptionally well organised" protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
He didn’t slow the iron or look my way.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
He pointed to laptop production being slower than usual and demand for desktop computers looking “particularly weak.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
She adds: "If you're not visibly using AI, you see slower promotion timelines. It's harder to be seen, and it's harder to fight being on that shortlist."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The health service's website states that most women can go home from hospital one or two days after a C-section, but that recovery is normally slower than from a vaginal birth.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
U.K. businesses polled in August expected to raise their prices at a slower pace than they did in July, according to a Bank of England survey released Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He’d eaten four of them, one after another, his father laughing as Moss ate the last one slower than the others.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
The school is adding nonbinding early action for the first time, and hopes to expedite its response timeline to regular decision applicants, since it was one of the slowest last year, Haynie said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Consumer spending rose in July at the slowest pace in seven months, suggesting the U.S. economy lost a little steam after the end of the 2026 Word Cup and start of the third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The other 13 are being mixed "in the slowest, slowest possible way" for a separate album, maybe next year.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
GlobalData Managing Director Neil Saunders called the results "another set of strong" quarterly figures, but noted that the US comparable growth was the slowest in six and a half years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Master drove slowly because of the crowds and road blocks, but slowest when they got to Milliken Hill.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Even if the bipartisan backlash against the AI boom slows the forecast pace of growth, data centers offer a tantalizing sales prospect for insurers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
"It doesn't ultimately stop it, but it slows it down quite considerably," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
That said, Arya noted that there are still risks for Nvidia if demand for AI slows, which could put pressure on its growth rate and balance sheet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Exports in June topped 100,000 units for the first time, underscoring the carmaker’s increasing reliance on overseas markets for growth as China’s auto market, the world’s largest, slows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
That means the back end of the skiff gets low in the water as the outboard tries to push it forward, then it comes up hard against the rope and slows down.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
According to data released Tuesday, China’s exports to the U.S. rose 34.3% in August, accelerating from 17.1% growth in July, while export growth to the European Union slowed to 6.6% from 16.0%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the new experiments, the researchers again found that BET bromodomain inhibitors slowed the growth of prostate cancer cell lines.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
This may be a sign that investor demand for upside calls has faded and that the pace of new capital entering the trade has slowed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
But pressed on whether development should be slowed until safety measures catch up, he said he would be open to the idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Billy Lee made his way to New York, his travels slowed by the severe pain in his damaged knees.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
A rapid strengthening of the yuan would erode China’s international competitiveness, slowing exports and economic growth, said economists at Goldman Sachs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
China is pumping tens of billions of dollars into eight state-owned banks and insurance companies to help shore up the country's financial system and boost its slowing economy.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Between 2010 and 2026, rent prices have doubled in the neighborhood, and there seems to be no slowing down.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
By slowing the degradation of PPARδ, pterostilbene allowed more of the protein to remain available inside the cell.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The robot swam and swam and swam, never stopping, never slowing, always moving north.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
