slowpoke
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But if your heart is a slowpoke the rest of the time, your health could be at risk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2022
Jones, the first-round draft pick, had trouble hanging onto the ball at times, but he had a strong arm and was no slowpoke, like Manning.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Four decades after the slowpoke era of "Drive 55," when a national energy crisis slowed speed limits to a crawl, gas prices have leveled off and automobiles have become far more fuel-efficient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
What an irony: From the last days of the slowpoke Dick Bennett regime in 2006, they’ve come full circle.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
And I hate to say it but Adah is just as ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Dmitriy Katsnelson’s take on the bull reminds me when a friend and I were cooling our heels on a golf course, waiting for the four slowpokes in front of us to move on.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
But it just seems that there’s a bigger proportion of slowpokes among the very best players, and I don’t think it’s an accident.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 11, 2017
"Hurry up, slowpokes," said Grace Harlowe, popping her head in the door.
From Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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