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After receiving the snails from local snail farms, the small creatures were placed inside machines where they were sprayed with an acidic solution that caused the snails to excrete their slime.—
Sam Delgado,
Vox,
17 Mar. 2025 -
Columbia plays at a snail’s pace, averaging 68.4 possessions per 40 minutes.—
Michael Waterloo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Unsurprisingly, the creeper that followed her into Grand Central's bathroom did so with the worst intentions.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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The creepers are less than loveable but still clever enough to avoid the skin-burning ovens.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2025
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Charismatic slacker Raj and uptight striver Mir aren’t just foils for each other; their mutual love is unmistakable, which gives weight to the looming prospect that the stress of salvaging Baba’s empire could tear them apart.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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When Alyssa's slacker boyfriend steals their rent money, the girls race against the clock to get the funds back to avoid eviction from their dubious landlord, embarking on a series of chaotic escapades across Los Angeles.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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As a result, Cognizant slipped from a best-in-class player in organic growth (compound annual growth rate of over 10%, firmly in the top quartile) to an industry laggard.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
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As businesses and policymakers navigate this landscape, the decisions made today will determine whether Europe creates a thriving, inclusive AI economy or allows a concerning gap to widen between AI leaders and laggards.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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According to an investigation by NewsGuard, Pravda has systematically infiltrated the data that artificial intelligence models use to generate responses, saturating search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin articles and talking points.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Travel back in time on the internet with the help of archives After entering a URL into the Wayback Machine, a user can see all the times the archive’s crawlers have saved the site and can then choose a timestamp to visit.—
Matthew Kaufman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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