as in slowly
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Adverb
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Arenado, who nursed a right shoulder injury in the offseason, slowly realized that relaxing can sometimes be the better part of valor.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026 -
The cost gap in terms of battery and auto production is slowly closing, and these firms are introducing more models at lower price points, which should help reduce the hemorrhage in market share.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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His next attempt three minutes later was silky, contributing to the Nuggets’ knockout blow of a run.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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Less than two minutes later, a snapshot by Saad inside the right circle snuck by Forsberg for the lead.—
Josh Gross,
Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Lincoln-Way East started sluggishly, to say the least, and trailed 7-4 after one quarter before Brown entered the game and scored seven points in the second quarter.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Cold weather slows the chemical reactions in these batteries, with the lithium ions moving more sluggishly through the electrolyte liquid.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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She was subsequently arrested on suspicion of animal abandonment and resisting arrest.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Youth workers from the opposition’s Youth Congress staged a shirtless demonstration inside the summit venue and were subsequently arrested.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Putin’s dangerous gamble Putin believes that time is on the side of his bigger army, Western officials and analysts say — and that Western support will trail off and that Ukraine’s military resistance will eventually crumble.—
Illia Novikov,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Of course, three weeks of near-constant togetherness eventually caught up with us.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Udeh dunked for the first time as a 6-3 seventh grader and soon thereafter was turning heads on the AAU circuit and at Barnett Park in the Pine Hills neighborhood outside of downtown Orlando.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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Shortly thereafter, the electron (1897) and the atomic nucleus (1911) were discovered.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Dilatorily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilatorily. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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