glacial
Example Sentences
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As a result, employment has been growing at a glacial pace, with the economy adding the fewest jobs last year, outside of a recession, since 2003.
This increased carbon uptake helped strengthen global cooling at the onset of glacial periods.
From Science Daily
She’s the most animated during the fittings for her inauguration outfits, and even then, she talks with a hard, glacial cadence.
From Salon
A bottle of Ice Age glacial water from the Czech mountains contains dazzling specks of 24‑carat gold.
From Barron's
The study, titled 'Detrital zircon-apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge's megaliths', was published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment.
From Science Daily
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