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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Recent Examples of snails
Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
That includes September’s Aloha Festivals, celebrating Hawaiian traditions, and the annual Kāhuli Festival at the Bishop Museum in October, a unique family-friendly event spotlighting the vital role of Hawaiian land snails in preserving biodiversity.
—Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Now the company has hundreds of preorders from customers looking to use the machines for various applications, including assembling electronics and even processing snails to be shipped to France for escargot, reported Tech Crunch.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
The bayous have become a popular breeding ground for intimidating apple snails from South America, which can reach 6 inches in width.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
Golden apple snails can completely regrow their eyes—and those eyes share many anatomical and genetic features with human eyes, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
Clarkson was aware of this rare asymmetry in snails from her work with the magazine New Zealand Geographic.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
These techniques also are helpful in managing snails in your garden.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
Some swimming snails have lost their protective shells (more like swimming slugs), while others retain them.
—Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
That includes September’s Aloha Festivals, celebrating Hawaiian traditions, and the annual Kāhuli Festival at the Bishop Museum in October, a unique family-friendly event spotlighting the vital role of Hawaiian land snails in preserving biodiversity.
—Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Now the company has hundreds of preorders from customers looking to use the machines for various applications, including assembling electronics and even processing snails to be shipped to France for escargot, reported Tech Crunch.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
The bayous have become a popular breeding ground for intimidating apple snails from South America, which can reach 6 inches in width.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
Golden apple snails can completely regrow their eyes—and those eyes share many anatomical and genetic features with human eyes, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
Clarkson was aware of this rare asymmetry in snails from her work with the magazine New Zealand Geographic.
—Angus Watson, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
These techniques also are helpful in managing snails in your garden.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snails
Noun
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Snails can look like little elephants, slugs can look like fish, and worms can look like swimming chandeliers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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The reflective foil discourages unwanted insects and pests like slugs from approaching and harming the plants, but actually helps to attract butterflies.—
Darcy Lenz,
Southern Living,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Arisu crawls onto a mound of rubble for momentary relief, and is met with an angry Banda.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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Gameplay begins as the player crawls from the wreckage.—
G Kirilloff,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Weakened stragglers were shot or simply collapsed and died on the road.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Migration typically peaks in September, but stragglers may still pass through in October depending on the region.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Need to know Nvidia probe drags on.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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Cole Palmer intelligently pulls wide and drags Jones with him, leaving a notable distance between Jones and Gravenberch in the middle.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The company was supposed to have blocked crawlers from Google harvesting Claude chats, but hundreds of conversations were found with some simple searches.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Japanese influence creeps in again with a matcha white chocolate chip cookie.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Sep. 2025
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Employees notice the waves of shiny experiments that come and go (with no momentum), and cynicism creeps in.—
Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Impressionistic lyrics would fit this stuff, but Le Bon pokes the spacious haze with direct evocations of love and heartbreak.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The track pokes fun at consumerism and a materialistic society constantly seeking the next best thing, a theme that remains relevant nearly 45 years later.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Through it all, there were clear winners and laggards in the third quarter — a diverse group spanning Big Tech to industrials.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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The gap between leaders and laggards is growing fast.—
Kevin Pierce,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Snails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snails. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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