as in braked
to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace
if you don't slow your delivery down a bit, your speech will be over too soon
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Recent Examples of slowed
The rate of spread was slowed after water-dropping aircraft arrived to help ground crews.
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Sahai said multiple factors had slowed export growth and that India was unlikely to meet its target of achieving $2 trillion in exports by 2030, pushing it by about two years.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
Gilbert Villegas chair of the Chicago City Council’s powerful Zoning Committee yesterday, following a long-running stalemate that slowed development.
—Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
On a recent Friday afternoon, while Elmer was working, an unmarked white SUV leaving the parking lot slowed to a stop a few feet from his shoe stand.
—Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026
The development costs for the 747 were so high that by the time the first plane flew, Boeing was $2 billion in debt (roughly $16 billion today) and airline orders for the aircraft slowed.
—John Pacenti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
The group’s momentum has slowed considerably in 2026.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed today that shipping through the critical Strait of Hormuz slowed sharply and then stopped following Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon.
—Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
So that problem has slowed down for now.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Sahai said multiple factors had slowed export growth and that India was unlikely to meet its target of achieving $2 trillion in exports by 2030, pushing it by about two years.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
Gilbert Villegas chair of the Chicago City Council’s powerful Zoning Committee yesterday, following a long-running stalemate that slowed development.
—Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
On a recent Friday afternoon, while Elmer was working, an unmarked white SUV leaving the parking lot slowed to a stop a few feet from his shoe stand.
—Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2026
The development costs for the 747 were so high that by the time the first plane flew, Boeing was $2 billion in debt (roughly $16 billion today) and airline orders for the aircraft slowed.
—John Pacenti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
The group’s momentum has slowed considerably in 2026.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed today that shipping through the critical Strait of Hormuz slowed sharply and then stopped following Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon.
—Tricia Escobedo, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
So that problem has slowed down for now.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowed
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The Waymo robotaxi, traveling at a speed of 17 miles per hour, braked and collided with the student.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
3 Mar. 2026
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The Waymo Driver braked hard, reducing speed from approximately 17 mph to under 6 mph before contact was made.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, overall auto spending on TV ads has decelerated in recent years.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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As store volumes ran hot, membership growth subsequently decelerated.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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Hurricane formation can be inhibited by strong wind shear over the Atlantic, stirred by the pattern of warmer-than-normal waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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So contaminated was the air that water droplets could cling to pollutants, slowing evaporation; the resulting scrim of moisture inhibited vertical air movement, trapping more pollution in turn.—
Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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To encompass the story, about a miracle from 847, when Pope Leo IV stopped a fire with a blessing, Raphael brings you into the fresco through the unshod feet of a woman in agony and leaves you near the very back, with a tiny and serene Leo IV.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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