slowing 1 of 3

adjective

Definition of slowingnext
as in decelerating

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slowing

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noun

as in decrease

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slowing

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verb

present participle of slow
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
  1. decrease
  2. braking
  3. inhibiting
  4. reduction
  5. deterioration
  6. failing
  7. decay
  8. decline
Noun
  • For instance, the decrease in price and even physical size of core elements like batteries, processing chips and bandwidth have allowed for the creation of devices that provide previously unfathomable experiences.
    Jon Kirchner, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • After 12 weeks of yoga training, questionnaires from the participants showed decreases in tension anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, fatigue, confusion, and somatization.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of decrease
Verb
  • Over 300,000 Ram Heavy Duty pickup trucks have been recalled this week over a braking system defect.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Stellantis is recalling more than 315,000 of its Ram pickup trucks due to a potentially deadly safety issue with the braking system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is reporting.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of braking
Verb
  • Remember, with Jupiter retrograde in your 12th, these could be unconscious patterns that have been inhibiting you or on the dark side, self-sabotage that’s been hindering your relationships.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Canada argues this dominance has discouraged rival companies from competing, inhibiting innovation and inflated advertising costs.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of inhibiting
Noun
  • However, the current geopolitical situation and lessons learned from the Russian invasion of Ukraine means that this reduction must be met with maintaining or even improving the capabilities of each individual British asset.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Switzerland became the first major economy to loosen its reins on monetary policy in March, implementing four reductions this year in the battle to tame the national currency’s appreciation and declines in consumer prices.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of reduction
Noun
  • Coined as far back as 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, the idea of mental deterioration from trivial distractions has never been more relevant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Tedeschi credits Park Road with heroic work on the Maysles footage, which was delivered to them in various stages of deterioration.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of deterioration
Noun
  • The incident and subsequent reports on safety failings by ride operators led to the Tyre Sampson Act, a pair of bills unanimously approved by the Florida Legislature in 2023 that closed gaps in ride safety laws.
    Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Loading your audio article The head of the Secret Service sparred with a Republican lawmaker at a contentious congressional hearing into security failings that led to the deadly assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of failing
Noun
  • Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In the early to mid 20th century, older adults quite commonly developed such severe dental decay, necessitating complete dental extractions followed by dentures by the 7th or 8th decades of life.
    Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of decay
Noun
  • The decline in childhood vaccination rates threaten herd immunity and will ultimately allow diseases that were thought to be eradicated to reappear.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The decline may not seem like a lot, but even a small shift matters in close elections — especially in battleground states with large union memberships, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of decline
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