slowly

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//ˈsləʊli//(Received Pronunciation)

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Definitions & Usage

adverb
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(manner) At a slow pace.

Translations:[DE]langsam

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.

2022 October 8, Julia Horowitz, “How meltdown in a $1 trillion market brought the UK to the brink of a financial crisis”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:

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