glacial
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“Councils can drag everything to a glacial pace, just going round and round in circles,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Every koala alive today appears to descend from a single ancestral population that endured dramatic environmental shifts, including intense glacial periods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
But that is banking on the court moving at its usual glacial pace.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Starz has cut its original four episodes into five, which means that they end in odd places, but given its controlled, glacial pace, shorter might be better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
And here was the nimble Army Corps of Engineers planning to hold back 250 billion gallons of water with notoriously unstable glacial till.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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