snailing

present participle of snail
as in dragging
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

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Verb
  • With the shutdown dragging on, GOP leaders in Congress will have to decide soon whether to extend that date, and by how much.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The comments came deep into the third week of the shutdown, which is dragging on with no clear end in sight amid a partisan fight in the Senate over federal funding priorities.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tropical Storm Melissa is crawling through the Caribbean Sea, threatening to unleash life-threatening flooding and mudslides across parts of the region later this week.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • These flat robots have multiple modes of movement, capable of jumping or crawling at multiple speeds.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even though the regular season is creeping closer by the hour and the anticipation of it all is wafting through the city, Charles Lee insists not much has changed.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Cold temps may be creeping in, but your travel dreams don’t have to hibernate.
    Kimberly Richardson, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The technology included corrupt automatic shuffling machines that read cards and predicted which player had the best hand.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Or use your finger, poking it about 2 inches into the soil.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Matthew McConaughey is poking fun at himself.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Snailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snailing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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