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is coasting
  • present progressive of coast (3rd person singular).

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That’s not to say that the prosecution is coasting toward a guilty verdict or that the jury’s response to Cohen won’t matter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

The 90-degree count is coasting toward its annual average with many weeks of summer remaining.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2020

Even on a night when he is coasting through a routine set list, it is hard to leave his show without a sense of joy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

Empire's Helen O'Hara is also scathing, calling the film "a tired retread" that is "coasting on fumes" and which "only truly comes alive in its performance scenes".

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2017

But we forget that the Skipper is coasting up towards Gjendesheim in search of the miscreant Öla.

From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.