sluggish
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“Moana” lost its way at the box office this weekend as the company’s latest live-action remake opened to a sluggish $43 million in the U.S. and Canada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Surging fuel prices and sluggish consumption continue to encourage consumers to purchase electric vehicles and hybrid cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
If the economy stays sluggish or gets worse and inflation falls, those could look like good deals in short order.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yes, there are love triangles, "mean teens" and scandals, he said, but the show is missing the "sheer sharpness of the movie", making it "an unusually sluggish teen drama".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
His movements were slow and sluggish, so the letters wavered a bit, but once he’d finished, there it was.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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