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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. draggingadjective

    marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

    "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"

    Antonyms:
    effortless

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "dragging":

    drag, dredging

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  1. Ashraf Ali Mahmoud:

    Foot-dragging in implementing security measures paves the way for hardliners to carry out such attacks.

  2. Matt Smith of U.S.-based ClipperData:

    The latest (U.S. regulatory) CFTC data show that speculators increased their shorts (aka bearish bets) by the biggest volume on record in last week's data for WTI crude. This is the biggest increase since data began back in 2006, dragging the net long position in WTI to its lowest since February, another bearish development from the CFTC data has been gasoline positioning. Speculative positions in gasoline have moved to a record net short position as hedge funds bet on an ongoing gasoline supply glut.

  3. African Americans:

    To be seen as sort of ignoring this or dragging the feet and hoping that it sort of goes away, it would just be a bad political strategy.

  4. Kyosuke Suzuki:

    The market had been a bit optimistic about an agreement so it was a bit of a surprise, but from the past experience during the euro zone debt crisis, the market is also accustomed to negotiations dragging on until the very last minutes. So while the tail risk appears to be rising, there is no panic in the market.

  5. Hoshyar Zebari:

    Prime Minister (Haider) al-Abadi kept dragging his heels. Every time we raised this issue with him, he said, 'Let’s wait until military operations are over', a whole city is being decimated. Look how much the government is contributing, as if they don’t care.


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