slowly

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He slowly became obsessed with the idea that high fees were a moral wrong perpetrated on American investors by an ethically bankrupt Wall Street fund-management industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

This helped researchers rule out competing theories, including the idea that the material came from older supernova explosions that slowly faded over millions of years.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

“We spend years being the center of their emotional world,” she wrote, “only to slowly watch them build one without us. If we do our job correctly, they leave.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Borenstein and some of his collaborators have also documented that retail gas prices rise quickly when wholesale costs climb but fall slowly when wholesale costs drop.

From Salon • May 13, 2026

From the carcass, blood dripped slowly into a birch-bark pail.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver