slowing (down or up)

verb

present participle of slow (down or up)
as in hanging (around or out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowing (down or up)
  1. decelerating
  2. strolling
  3. staggering
  4. fooling around
  5. ambling
  6. shuffling
  7. sauntering
  8. inching
Verb
  • The latest rationale is that earnings momentum in the chip sector, as reflected in upward EPS estimate revisions, is decelerating.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Those comments now has Aubrey Tianello, senior analyst at BNP Paribas Equity Research, noting that investors might be expecting decelerating comp growth at both core Dick’s and Foot Locker doors.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of decelerating
Verb
  • Around them, people strolling through Herald Square stopped to watch — all while a seated crowd burst into dance and applause.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Photos of him at campus barbecues or strolling the neighborhood proliferate student social media circles.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of strolling
Verb
  • As the deli’s surveillance video rolled, his client went from calmly standing at the counter with a bottle of Gatorade to staggering to the floor, clutching his leg and tearing at his pants.
    — Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hands and small heads.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Definition of staggering
Verb
  • Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Definition of fooling around
Verb
  • That same day, she was photographed ambling down a picturesque street in a striking purple short set, casually holding an Aperol spritz.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Bear #132’s cub managed to survive and was reunited with its family after several days ambling alone.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambling
Verb
  • Green tea was served by gang members shuffling around in slippers.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Ivey and his partner persuaded the Crockfords dealer to rotate the high-value cards 180 degrees before shuffling them back into the pack, citing some obscure superstition as justification.
    — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffling
Verb
  • The charter Girardeau sailed with was about four miles out and almost at the its trip when word of the hammerhead was radioed out — the crew decided to take a chance and sped up the coast 15 minutes to see the shark still sauntering in the sea.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Before sauntering down the stairwell to the dressing room, Stones stopped to sign autographs for fans in Inter’s pitchside hospitality suites.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of sauntering
Verb
  • The idiosyncratic biopic makes the right choices, giving us in a sliver of time the dailiness of a working life with its gossip, money worries, and ongoing projects dwindling or cresting or inching forward.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Just as a cooldown brought relief following record-breaking October heat, temperatures will begin inching up on Wednesday, with winds continuing to pick up.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of inching
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