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
The sluggish nature of the rounds - some taking almost six hours - added to the sense of frustration.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
A stick stuck up from one corner of the basket, and, on it, like a sluggish flag stood six pretzels.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing sluggish
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