as in slugs
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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as in crawls
to move slowly
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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Recent Examples of snails
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 25 Jan. 2026
The snails have to breathe somehow.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
—Isoke Atiba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Take respectful photos and use your Pocket Guide to identify common species like tidepool sculpin or turban snails.
—Lillie Mulligan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
This mode reflects how snails move efficiently under normal conditions.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
And more books should have kittens and/or snails on them.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
In rural Ireland, using pigs to cure mumps and snails for warts are just some of the hundreds of remedies once believed to be cures.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
The snails are often pulled from their shells, but some chefs prefer to serve them in shell and let customers enjoy extracting the snails themselves.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Noun
Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.
—Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano, The Spruce, 25 Jan. 2026
The snails have to breathe somehow.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
—Isoke Atiba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Take respectful photos and use your Pocket Guide to identify common species like tidepool sculpin or turban snails.
—Lillie Mulligan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
This mode reflects how snails move efficiently under normal conditions.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
And more books should have kittens and/or snails on them.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
In rural Ireland, using pigs to cure mumps and snails for warts are just some of the hundreds of remedies once believed to be cures.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
The snails are often pulled from their shells, but some chefs prefer to serve them in shell and let customers enjoy extracting the snails themselves.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snails
Noun
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Coffee grounds are also often used to deter slugs and snails, reduce weeds without chemicals, and even repel neighborhood strays.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
21 Jan. 2026
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Garden snakes have important roles in your landscape, eating insects and invertebrates such as slugs and providing food for birds of prey such as hawks and owls.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2026
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John Tufts The weather outside is about to get frightful as a potentially dangerous winter storm crawls its way across the country.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
23 Jan. 2026
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In the video, the coyote crawls out of the water and struggles to get his footing once on the rocks.—
Amanda Hari,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Get those ballots filled out, stragglers.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2026
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The last few stragglers are set to report quarterly results this week.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
7 Dec. 2025
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But scenes like this in Minneapolis, where one officer drags a woman and another points his gun at bystanders, have raised questions about their conduct.—
Cecilia Vega,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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An officer then drags him by the hood of his jacket.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Mintz agrees that intentional time matters, especially when guilt creeps in.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Each 40-ish minute episode following the premiere delivers diminishing returns, Elba can only beg people to listen to him so many times before growing monotonous, and when the train creeps to a polite stop at its final destination, there’s little suspense to the resolution and even less sense.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Moon also pokes lucky Jupiter in your very own sign, which pushes you to show up boldly without overextending yourself.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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Is every head that pokes in to look at me actually Frank himself?—
Shane Kowalski,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The rotational dynamics since late October have continued to favor economically sensitive stocks and 2025 laggards over the tech giants that contributed the most value over the past three years.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2026
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This raises the question of how exactly the search giant pulled this off, and whether any of the four laggards can do the same—and deliver a similar win for their suffering shareholders.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Snails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snails. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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