sluggish
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Major home improvement retailers were cautious going into their key spring season amid a sluggish housing market.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
The treatment seemed to wake up healing pathways that are normally sluggish in older tissue.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
Target plans to replace its head of supply chain, Gretchen McCarthy, with former Walmart executive Jeff England as it tries to reverse sluggish sales.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
A sluggish residential real-estate market has driven desperate homeowners to ask strangers on the internet for their input.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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