slowpoke
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But if your heart is a slowpoke the rest of the time, your health could be at risk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2022
Jones, the first-round draft pick, had trouble hanging onto the ball at times, but he had a strong arm and was no slowpoke, like Manning.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019
Gov. Newsom kept her on as leader of a “strike team” to reform the slowpoke Department of Motor Vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
What an irony: From the last days of the slowpoke Dick Bennett regime in 2006, they’ve come full circle.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
“You’ve gone from slowpoke to safety hazard in one day.”
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Dmitriy Katsnelson’s take on the bull reminds me when a friend and I were cooling our heels on a golf course, waiting for the four slowpokes in front of us to move on.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
These slowpokes in the left lane are annoying, to be sure, but it still seems extreme to label their behavior illegal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2015
“Where in the world have you slowpokes been?” asked Belle.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Penrose, Margaret
