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View definitions for slowly

slowly

adverb as in moderately

adverb as in at a slow pace

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This time, the growth is happening even more slowly — we have an even better warning.

From Vox

The “wall of smoke” is slowly dispersing, recent images show, and it has now started to move over the rest of the country.

As superfast 5G wireless technology slowly rolls out across the country for consumers, Verizon is also planning business applications that might bring in more revenue sooner.

From Fortune

Partial indexing is often connected to a website using JavaScript, but this is slowly changing.

It is much easier, I suspect, to imagine that our minds could slowly fill with dehumanizing representations of another group, especially if we are repeatedly bombarded with such representations.

Slowly, two were opened up, and in 2010 the regional government opened all four Brogpa villages in a push for tourism.

Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.

In my eyes she killed those people… exposing a gay person like this is akin to torturing him slowly to death.

Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.

“The lies of the government shocked us,” says Fatima, as the tears flow slowly from her eyes and down her cheek.

Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.

Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.

The lovers got up, with only a silent protest, and walked slowly away somewhere else.

He spoke clearly and slowly, well knowing that some among the natives would understand him.

The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slowly, such as: calmly, casually, deliberately, gently, gradually, and haltingly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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