slow down
Idioms-
Delay, retard, reduce speed, as in She slowed down the sled by dragging her foot , or Slow down, Bill; you're driving much too fast . [First half of 1800s] Also see slow up .
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Become less active or vigorous, as in Now that I'm in my seventies I find I've slowed down quite a bit . [Second half of 1800s]
Example Sentences
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Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck examine the complicated reality of trying to slow down the A.I. frontier.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
Over the weekend, executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceX agreed that they needed to slow down the pace of AI development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The head of AI company Anthropic has called for the pace of development of artificial intelligence models to slow down and to be closely monitored, and other AI leaders have joined him.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Some investors have worried that if Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies slow down their training of large language models, they will need to spend less on hardware and infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Time seemed to slow down as the Jupiters’ pitcher got ready.
From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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