lingeringly

adverb

Definition of lingeringlynext
as in sluggishly

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  1. sluggishly
  2. slowly
  3. deliberately
Adverb
  • Current leaks through transistors that should be switched off, and electrons move more sluggishly through channels only a few atoms thick.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The fish looks straight at me, flopping sluggishly from side to side.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of sluggishly
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  • Everyone must be ready for anything, and as 100 becomes 50, the kitchen slowly empties and the competition intensifies until one cook eventually walks away victorious.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • That was written for a world where the consequences of misplaced trust arrived slowly enough to correct.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of slowly
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  • The paper, led by a researcher named Evan Hubinger, described an experiment in which Anthropic’s team had deliberately trained AI models to behave deceptively.
    — Kevin Roose, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Some are very hands on, others deliberately removed from almost all day-to-day decisions.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of deliberately
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“Lingeringly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lingeringly. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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