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But he named others: “Let’s say orders would slow before the income statement changes. It could be a shrinking backlog. Or it might be a blip” because of bad weather.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
As his collegiate career progressed, he didn’t slow down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"We're doing this to slow down the fire's advance; we want to save our homes," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Any spell of sunny, settled weather will bring blue-green algae out in force, although the blooms have felt a little slow to start this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Her speech was slow and blurred, but she was trying to say something.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Low-band spectrum travels far and goes through walls easily, but offers slower connectivity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
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
Then our voices become full of tears, and slower, as if to hold on to each other.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Overall prices at the supermarket are rising at their slowest rate in nearly two years.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Shelter costs decelerated, showing the slowest pace of increase in more than five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
Here, in the slowest country on earth, the students had a whole hour-and-a-half lunch break.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Such circular funding arrangements have caused concerns that the industry is vulnerable if investor sentiment shifts or growth slows for AI companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
For camels this means when heat stress sets in, their metabolism slows down to limit internal heat production leading to sharp reduction in food intake resulting in lethargy and generalised fatigue.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Within this zone, the solar wind slows from its usual speed of about 400 km/s to roughly 200 km/s.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Within minutes, sunlight transforms this material into an ionized gas shield that slows the oncoming massive blob of plasma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For just a moment, time slows like something falling while fighting with gravity.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
In 2020, as the film industry slowed down because of COVID-19, Weger took a chance and opened the Curatorial Dept., a vintage and designer resale shop in Atwater Village.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Military spending juiced economic growth in 2023 and 2024, though it has since slowed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
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
“We haven’t really slowed down enough to eat.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Residents claimed public safety by slowing that movement and making enforcement visible.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
But if they raise interest rates to tame inflation they risk slowing growth further.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
South Korea’s economy expanded 0.6% in the second quarter, slowing from the previous quarter’s revised 1.8% growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Suddenly and without slowing his pace, the BFG turned his head sharply to the left.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
