adverb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slowly but surely
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Slowly but surely, the company is becoming successful again.
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He's slowly but surely making his way through college.
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She's getting better, slowly but surely.
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As regards the growth of the church, about a year after beginning to meet, slowly but surely we began to grow.
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But the others were moving, slowly but surely.
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Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs, and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep.
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Solid, rock like, you don't move easily and you take things slowly but surely.
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The tangible, material aspect of this will come slowly but surely in the period between now and early November.
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Wendy says that slowly but surely our name is taking hold in this wide area.
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Yet slowly but surely they came back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Surely Beverly would be willing to help.
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Surely he must have realized that the money was stolen.
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I thought surely you knew!
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Your car must be worth more than $500, surely !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But surely Mr. Middlemass could do something.
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If a sign were needed that the Internet has become a real market, the arrival of tax avoidance is surely it.
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In historical perspective, we know that Chairman Khrushchev was surely right.
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Laertes would surely have killed him.
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This would surely encourage golfers to repair their own pitch marks and those left by others.
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Throwing money at the problem is surely not the way to convince people of sincerity.
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We must have overlooked it somehow, as it surely couldn't have been missed out altogether?