slowly but surely

idiom

: by making slow but definite progress
used to stress that something is happening or being done even though it is not happening or being done quickly
We're getting the work done, slowly but surely.

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The Brazilian is slowly but surely recovering his best form under Xabi Alonso and that much was made clear on Saturday night. Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Over the past few years, Sombr has slowly but surely etched a space for himself as a bedroom pop artist operating in a mainstream pop world. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025 The hum of daily life drifting on the wind, slowly but surely. Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2025 In his view, the expanding ubiquity of predictive AI models is squeezing our culture into a kind of groupthink, in which all our idiosyncrasies slowly but surely become discounted as irrelevant outliers in the data of humanity. Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slowly but surely

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“Slowly but surely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slowly%20but%20surely. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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