gradual
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Things happen like this in history, countries take turns, sometimes gradual, sometimes abrupt.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Dr. Anna Morad, a pediatrician at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, said she had witnessed a gradual rise in families refusing vitamin K leading up to the hospitalizations.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
"Expansion is gradual, with each new zone introduced only after detailed validation and once the system is proven reliable in real-world conditions," Pejkovic said in a statement.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
The new observations from Cascadia suggest that these ancient plates likely broke apart in the same gradual way.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
‘So gradual you could sometimes convince yourself it wasn’t really happening. Till it started speeding up, and it felt like every time we saw her she’d taken another giant turn for the worse.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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