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Escape your echo chamber.
—The Week Us, theweek, 30 May 2024
Change and progress is like a frozen snail's pace.
—Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 28 Apr. 2021
But that opportunity does not come from most brick-and-mortar banks, which have been increasing their savings account rates at a snail's pace.
—Ken Tumin, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2022
That upended pre-pandemic trends, in which chains were taking a little bit of share from independents, but at a snail's pace.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
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First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of snail's pace was
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“Snail's pace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snail%27s%20pace. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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