slow
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Sharaa’s government is also facing a range of pressures due to Syria’s slow reconstruction after years of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
His mind, like his feet, refused to slow down.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Prices have risen 3.5% in the past 12 months, and analysts are expecting that to slow hardly at all when the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
I slow down a little, and Jonah huffs out, “Oh, thank God,” as he slows down, too.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Growers are reporting that their water reserves are depleted, Vanpoperingh said, which means the cauliflower and broccoli family of brassicas will experience slower growth, leading to shorter supplies.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
After “Trenchtown,” the record shifts gears into the slower and more serious “Burnin’ and Lootin’.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
In July, the sector added 22,000 jobs, but it was a slower pace than its average gain over the last year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Honeywell Aerospace surprised Wall Street by cutting its outlook late Wednesday, saying its mechanical-parts supply chain had been slower to improve.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
It gets slower and slower as the curvature gets greater and greater.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
A tiny organ in Germany offers the world’s slowest concert.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Gross domestic product grew 4.3% in the second quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, the slowest pace since 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
China's economy grew 4.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, the slowest pace in more than three years, official data showed this month.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The U.S. is experiencing one of the slowest rates of hiring in history, especially during a period of economic expansion.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
George’s mother is made of stem, unyielding material, and she also happens to be the slowest speaker I’ve ever heard.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
As it enters Assam's vast floodplains, home to some 28 million people and hemmed in by hills, it slows and deposits sediment, fuelling erosion and floods.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
People need their medicines and treatments no matter what the economy or the AI build-out is doing, so demand and cash flows remain relatively constant even when the economy slows down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"It slows you down and you get to see places you just wouldn't see in a car. We've seen places we just never would have dreamed of stopping at before."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
At lower energies, nuclear stopping initially slows the matter down, producing deceleration of up to about 500 MeV.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Corporal Reynolds slows down and furrows his eyebrows at me for a second before his face relaxes a little.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Shares of sneaker maker On Holding slid 20% to $30.91 after the Swiss company said it slowed wholesale shipments after waning demand for running shoes dented earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Long winters, heavy snowfall and decades of conflict have further slowed cricket's development.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Optical technology has long been expected to replace copper in more parts of the data center, but the technology’s high costs have slowed that shift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
U.K. pay growth has slowed sharply and has now returned to around pre-COVID levels, a marked contrast with economies such as Japan and the eurozone, where wage pressures remain more persistent.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mr. Drew slowed down as he drove up a tree- lined street.
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
His comments came after the U.S. reported an unexpected decline in jobs for July and slowing pay growth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The reading suggested the world's number one economy was slowing, though traders welcomed the prospect the Federal Reserve will hold off hiking borrowing costs for the time being.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Dedicated volunteers and under-funded conservationists have been slowing the army of increasing threats, but experts fear that without urgent action and political courage, the biodiversity Australia says it loves is headed for a bloodbath.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
On Thursday, Michigan officials said the state’s data now suggests that, “new cyclosporiasis case reports are slowing, including a downward trend in diarrhea-related emergency department visits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
If the expansion is slowing down rapidly, then it’s a good sign that the energy from the big bang is nearly spent; our universe would be heading for a big crunch.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
