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Adjective
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Homebuyers continued to wait for mortgage rates to drop last year and sellers, especially condo owners, waited for buyers to show up in a meaningful way during what was another sluggish year for the state’s housing market, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Association of Realtors.—
Aldo Svaldi,
The Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2025 -
The production, directed by Mina Morita, renders the play in solid, if slightly sluggish, fashion.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, came under fire in 1992 for his laggard response to Andrew in Florida, a Category 5 hurricane with winds that reached 165 mph, shortly before his reelection contest against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.—
Julian Zelizer,
CNN,
30 Sep. 2022
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Its laggard incubation period gives us a full 21 days to intervene between exposure and disease.—
Abdul El-Sayed,
The New Republic,
29 Sep. 2022
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Backpackers found the country decades ago, drawn by staggeringly beautiful limestone mountains, elaborate Buddhist temples and an unhurried and inexpensive pace of life.—
Christine Chung,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Lipton Bot is unhurried and as soothing as chamomile, with a hint of basset hound around the eyebrows and an attentive tenderness that, impressively, never slips cheaply toward the sinister.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2024
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At the Washington Department of Ecology, the state’s primary Hanford watchdog, people have had to stretch their imaginations to accommodate Hanford’s dilatory progress, said Cheryl Whalen, the agency’s cleanup section manager.—
Valerie Brown,
Discover Magazine,
28 Sep. 2018
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He can’t be blamed for the agency’s dilatory response to problems at the plant.—
The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
25 May 2022
Adjective
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The Miata's recipe of feathery bodywork, poky dimensions, a sweet chassis and rear-wheel drive.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes,
4 Dec. 2024
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Well-fed clouds, almost too substantial to be believed, floated above islands carpeted with evergreens, cheerful sailboats, and a poky ferry slowly gliding along the navy blue waters.—
Jesse Ashlock,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 May 2024
Adjective
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Each of the 67 rooms boasts charming village and serene harbor views, and some even have their own private patios to take a languid coffee in the morning.—
Ariel Okin,
Vogue,
22 Jan. 2025
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Louche, languid tailoring has become a major trend in Milan and Florence.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Ultraslow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ultraslow. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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