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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 means that many beaches around the world are shrinking, slowly but surely.
  — David R. Montgomery, Discover Magazine, 12 July 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
• Young adults are slowly but surely turning their heads.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 13 May 2024
• 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
• Unlike in previous years, bidding was slow and thoughtful as the price increased slowly but surely, putting everyone on the edge of their seats.
  — Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
• The goal is for Bryant-Stephens and her staff to slowly but surely increase funding and expand the programs’ reach throughout Philadelphia.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 22 May 2024
• Along with his new movie role, Majors is slowly but surely reentering into the zeitgeist.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 21 June 2024
• 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
• After running as a centrist in 2020, Biden slowly but surely adopted the policies advocated by the left wing of his party.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 July 2024
• Add to that a hotel with event space on the Pimlico site that would be expected to support Sinai Hospital and, slowly but surely, better days are coming.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
• Black artists are slowly but surely staking their claim in country music and country-adjacent genres, and it’s been long overdue.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024