slow up
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"If every single home needs to be applied for on an exemption basis that will slow up the delivery of desperately-needed new homes, that administration will be burdensome."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
The field will look to hunt down Ewing over the weekend, but it will need her to slow up.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Bond yields slumped on Wednesday to multi-month lows, but rather than moving higher on expectations the Fed will slow up on its policy tightening, this time Wall Street slumped into the red.
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2023
Money began to slow up, so the whole spoiled thing went away.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2020
A horse was clomping slow up the road and whoever was riding it was singing.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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