glacial
Example Sentences
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He’ll need it—for on the current trajectory, Russian troops will continue to proceed at a glacial place.
These indicators of past glacial activity, along with Coloe Fossae and the surrounding craters, are visible in the annotated images.
From Science Daily
This person wants two opposing things at once: to move at a glacial pace, to never see another person again, and to reenter the world, to laugh, to reimmerse.
From Los Angeles Times
The Noctis volcano presents a long and complex history of modification, possibly from a combination of fracturing, thermal erosion, and glacial erosion.
From Science Daily
But new research from the University of Oxford has revealed that rubisco is continually improving, but that this improvement is occurring at a glacial pace.
From Science Daily
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