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
Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
And to have Jasmin send me photos of her pet snails.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
There are as many as 9000 genes that seem to be involved in regenerating an amputated eye in the snails, reducing down to 1,175 genes by the 28th day of the process, so complete maturation of the new eyes might take longer.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
That is because Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
These techniques also are helpful in managing snails in your garden.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
There's people that are incredibly dedicated, working very hard to maintain some of these native plants and these birds and snails and all the different things that are threatened and endangered.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
To the left of the fish is a section with live clams in multiple varieties, mussels, snails, baby octopus, scallops, head-on shrimp and more.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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The bayous have become a popular breeding ground for intimidating apple snails from South America, which can reach 6 inches in width.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
And to have Jasmin send me photos of her pet snails.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
There are as many as 9000 genes that seem to be involved in regenerating an amputated eye in the snails, reducing down to 1,175 genes by the 28th day of the process, so complete maturation of the new eyes might take longer.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
That is because Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
These techniques also are helpful in managing snails in your garden.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
There's people that are incredibly dedicated, working very hard to maintain some of these native plants and these birds and snails and all the different things that are threatened and endangered.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
To the left of the fish is a section with live clams in multiple varieties, mussels, snails, baby octopus, scallops, head-on shrimp and more.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snails
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Place a piece of 6 x 6-inch piece of cardboard or thin plywood on the garden surface to attract slugs, then check under it every morning.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
28 Aug. 2025
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Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the footage, the dog hilariously crawls under the blanket, which had slipped down the side of his crate, and ends up pulling it completely off.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Dead Bug Ab-cross crawls support overall ab strength.—
Health Editorial Team,
Health,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Despite some stragglers, the big picture is of soaring demand for AI, but even with the vast sums being invested in European data centers, supply is still struggling to keep up.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Maybe his rehabilitation drags.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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The North Carolina General Assembly returned Tuesday for the first time since last month, as a budget stalemate between the House and Senate drags on.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Aug. 2025
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Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
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The creepy crawlers were discovered in upside-down plastic tubs, and many of them died.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Unlike a broken leg or a sudden illness, hearing loss often creeps in quietly.—
Joseph Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Bias also creeps into the data used to train these algorithms, for example when the composition of teams that guide the development of such facial recognition software lack diversity.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The brand’s giant green owl mascot dances badly, makes obscure pop culture references and pokes fun at the company’s push notifications.—
Leeron Walter,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Like his contemporaries, Meyers often pokes fun at the ongoing actions of the president and his administration on Late Night.—
Emlyn Travis Updated,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Nvidia was among Friday's key laggards, as shares extended their recent losses with a fall of 3%.—
Sean Conlon,Brian Evans,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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Technology stocks got trounced in the last week as investors sold their winners and bought previous laggards.—
MoneyShow,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Snails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snails. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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