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
But progress has been glacial, and armed groups still hold far greater sway over many communities than the national government.
From New York Times
Gascón and Middleton, who has declined multiple interview requests, have faced repeated criticism for the special prosecutor’s expensive contract and the seeming glacial pace of the investigations of the four cases.
From Los Angeles Times
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