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• Still, there’s a sense from some that the city is slowly but surely moving into a new era.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• That’s what the rest of the fine-dining industry is starting to learn too, slowly but surely.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
• And, slowly but surely, gearing up for October, safe to start peeking ahead to a month and a half away.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Lions are slowly but surely building a focused roster from the ground up.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 7 Sep. 2022
• White is slowly but surely looking like his old self again, but the Bills won’t be the best secondary the Bengals face this year, something Chase welcomes.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2023
• After trial and error, the rescuers were able to get a nylon strap under the horse and were able to guide it onto the ice slowly but surely.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
• If many adults are slowly but surely learning about the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States, children are even more in need of education.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day Magazine, 5 May 2023
• If many adults are slowly but surely learning about the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States, children are even more in need of education.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day Magazine, 5 May 2023
• And then to have people slowly but surely discover it and really respond to it was a dream.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2023
• That figure has since been dropping, slowly but surely.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2023
• Louisville is slowly but surely coming into the spotlight as a top destination for a girls trip down South.
  — Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
• If nothing else, Thiem will go to bed Monday night thinking that his level is slowly but surely coming back.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• There’s freshmen like Lee and Hood all around the Tigers’ defense, which is slowly but surely coming together, Simpson says.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• Others, over the course of dozens of visits to sobering care, began to slowly but surely make changes in their lives and gain hope for a future no longer dictated by their substance use.
  — Shannon Smith-Bernardin, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• The holiday season is slowly but surely wrapping up (pun intended), which means we're headed to the middle of a cold and chilly winter.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2022
• There was a point, midway through the first half, when City’s passing started to affront the crowd’s dignity: What had started as whistling turned, slowly but surely, into jeers.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Four months after marrying the man of her dreams, the Sister Wives star is slowly but surely taking the necessary steps to take husband David Woolley's last name.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• The main frontal boundary is moving south slowly but surely, creating what should be a drier Wednesday and onward.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 7 May 2023
• Everybody started to drink wine slowly but surely and then started to post wine on Instagram.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023
• Back at home, the Republican field for the 2024 presidential race is slowly but surely heating up.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
• And now, slowly but surely, acceptance has begun to arrive.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• The contents of our ancestors’ dinner tables have slowly but surely left their signatures in the human genome.
  — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 27 July 2022
• But that barrier is slowly but surely being broken down.
  — WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
• Houston's segmented network of bike lanes, trails and bayou greenways is slowly but surely taking even more shape with two major projects on the horizon—and even more coming up.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 28 Apr. 2022
• Having said that, nobody wants to be in an abusive relationship in which one group kind of lords over the other and slowly but surely diminishes returns for them.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
• The Mars flyby will send Psyche spiraling outward, slowly but surely catching up with its target.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
• After a workers’ strike rocked the country in June 1953, the state slowly but surely grew its security apparatus, until the Stasi was the largest police force per capita that the world has ever seen.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• Decide today — right now — to do something, anything, different every single day and watch your life change, slowly but surely.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Google has slowly but surely been expanding its headphone lineup.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 21 Oct. 2022
• The distinctions between male and female tailoring are slowly but surely fading away.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024