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barely moving

adjective as in creeping

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To experiment on the atoms, it is first necessary to cool them down significantly so that they are barely moving.

Over yerba mate and torta fritas, his mother, Ederlinda Miguelina Yelón, passed along the knowledge she had stored in Chaná, a throaty language spoken by barely moving the lips or tongue.

And let’s be honest — before that now-legendary drive Monday, Lock was barely moving the ball.

That prolonged movement left the Kraken — who’d had several chances to corral the puck and get play blown dead — completely exhausted to where they were barely moving by the time Duchene scored.

“Instead, he faced down on the ground, not speaking, barely moving. The defendants injected him with an overdose of a powerful sedative, a drug that Elijah had no medical need for, and the defendants had no medical purpose to give.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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