variants or pokey

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Recent Examples of poky Here in the United States, a high percentage of public chargers are poky Level 2 units that deliver alternating current at 240 volts. Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 The elevators are poky by modern office-building standards but more than enough for the lighter demands of a residence, and presumably they’ll get upgraded anyway. Curbed, 26 Oct. 2023 The new film is much pokier in its pacing, with duller characters. Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023 These scruffy, poky green invaders have taken over much of the Colorado Basin’s riversides, aided by the unnatural stability left by upstream dams that tamed floods. Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for poky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poky
Adjective
  • The whales often appear unbothered, turning gently toward swimmers or drifting by in slow, graceful passes.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2025
  • Now, in the new study, researchers have gathered data that supports the theory that the demise of tropical forests, and their slow recovery, limited carbon sequestration – a process where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in plants, soils or minerals.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • The overall effect is one of decadence laced with a creeping sense of horror.
    Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • As a child, she was plagued by anxiety and the creeping sense that adults, especially her mother, were keeping secrets from the kids.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • While new issues began rebounding in June, M&A remains sluggish.
    Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 8 July 2025
  • Dopamine economy The rapidly growing popularity of the ugly-cute toys contrasts with otherwise sluggish consumption in the country, as many become increasingly frugal in the face of an economic slowdown.
    Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 July 2025

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“Poky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poky. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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