creeping
Example Sentences
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Companies are wrestling with drilling hazards that make it more costly to operate and complaining that the marinade is creeping into their oil-and-gas reservoirs.
"It's a large, slowly moving mass -- on the order of about 500 million cubic meters -- that has been creeping for decades."
From Science Daily
By creeping to 286 all out, 85 behind on first innings, England could have left themselves an outside chance by dismissing Australia for a total below 240 in their second innings.
From BBC
“Not everyone expected brenso to work…but expectations had been creeping up into year-end and this afternoon’s negative phase 2 readout is undoubtedly a near-term setback for the story,” Brayer wrote in a research note.
From Barron's
It exists in opposition to the darkness creeping over the globe.
From Salon
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