slow-footed

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Recent Examples of slow-footed At Yankee Stadium, the slow-footed Stanton is best suited to play right field thanks to the short porch. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 In the first inning, third-base coach Luis Rojas surprisingly waved the slow-footed Trent Grisham home on a 110.7 mph Giancarlo Stanton single to Marlins left fielder Kyle Stowers. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025 Jake Entrekin remembers himself as an eighth-grader: 5-foot-2, a little doughy and slow-footed — not exactly built like a future baseball star. Noah Perkins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025 But Ryan McMahon hit a chopper to second baseman Nico Hoerner, who threw out the slow-footed Stallings at home for the second out. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 26 May 2025 Denver is anchored by Nikola Jokic — an incredibly cerebral, yet somewhat slow-footed center. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 May 2025 Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $19.99 This article is a selection from the June 2025 issue of Smithsonian magazine In his later years, Charles Keeling reflected on the slow-footed public response to growing evidence of climate change. Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025 In the fifth inning, with slow-footed catcher Luis Torrens on second base, Framber Valdez threw a changeup to Juan Soto that bounced past catcher Yainer Diaz to the backstop. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025 Finally, a monetary response in the form of, first low then high interest rates that even Fed officials have admitted was slow-footed helped stoke prices further. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slow-footed
Adjective
  • Post struggled in his first go, thrown into the fire against the best team in the league that plays a style designed to punish heavy-footed centers.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • For all those who grouse that this is an overreaction to Hunter working over undersized and heavy-footed Bison, that’s fair.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Occasionally, as in the obscurity of Legion’s later episodes or the plodding pace of some Fargo plots, this approach can verge on self-indulgence.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, the infectious energy of the scare zone gets completely lost in the lethargic and drowsy maze.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • At first, Walters feared the chicken might not survive—describing her as lethargic and depressed.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Slow-footed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slow-footed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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