as in decelerating
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as in decrease
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as in braking
to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace
if you don't slow your delivery down a bit, your speech will be over too soon
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowing
Noun
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Under Bukele's tenure, El Salvador has seen a dramatic decrease in its crime rate.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2025 -
Fort Lauderdale: $3.06, according to AAA, a 10-cent decrease from last week.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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And there's an 80-lux LED headlight plus braking tail-light.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
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Amid the downpour that turned Interlagos into a battleground, painting the track in a chaotic gloss with puddles in the braking zones and spray obscuring vision, the two Frenchmen surprised the paddock and perhaps themselves.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The chic, award-winning, mold-inhibiting, purse-friendly and dermatologist recommended unit also comes with a space for an aromatherapy stone and essential oils to keep your cortisol levels low while micromanaging troublesome coworkers.—
Tanya Akim,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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But is what seems like a harmless habit inhibiting you from doing your best work?—
Maggie Gillette,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Such reductions would likely require cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care plan for low-income residents, but exactly how those cuts would be implementedhas yet to be decided.—
Danielle J. Brown,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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Obviously, income reductions aren't advisable but can come with an income-tax silver lining.—
Russ Wiles,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Submersible visits over the years have shown an increase in its deterioration, with rust and microorganisms eating away at the ship's metal. Dives over more than a decade have shown the ship is falling apart.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2025
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That could mean that rate cuts are pushed off until much later this year or even delayed until next year if that deterioration takes time to materialize.—
Colby Smith,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Organizations must stop treating burnout as a personal failing or an unavoidable reality of today’s workplace, and start recognizing it as a systemic issue.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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One major failing has been a slow response to an obvious need for more water storage — either in reservoirs or underground aquifers — to capture winter rains and spring snowmelts as a buffer for dry years.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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One hundred and thirteen years later, much of the great vessel — and what’s left of its splendors — remains in the same spot it was found four decades ago in 1985, though decay and human interference have changed its form over time.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Water fluoridation has been proven to be so effective at preventing tooth decay that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named it one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, a time during which Americans' life expectancies rose by 30 years.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This is a result of a profit-first capitalist system in crisis in the epoch of imperialism’s decline.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Most of the decline in yields was from a decrease in the real, after-inflation yield demanded by investors, which reversed some of the increase from the previous week.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Slowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slowing. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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