as in slugs
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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as in crawls
to move slowly
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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Noun
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Watch your step for banana slugs.—
Daniel Bromfield,
The Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2025 -
Watch your step for banana slugs.—
Daniel Bromfield,
The Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context.—
Raianne Reiss,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
Verb
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The series pokes fun at musical tropes and also has hilarious songs of its own.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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During anagen, the hair follicle will produce a new shaft–the part of the follicle that pokes above the skin.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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McKinsey researchers also found that the gap in digital transformation maturity between market leaders and laggards has increased by 60% over the past three years.—
Igor Rikalo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Apple was one of the biggest laggards of the group, falling nearly 4% to extend this year’s losses to more than 8%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Snails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snails. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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