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slow burn

noun

Definitions

  1. Something that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.

    • My own very personal journey into the deepest love of all – that of a parent for a child – was a slow burn. But it left me deeply connected to Milo in a way that I never imagined.
    • The ‘carbon bomb’ stored in the thawing Arctic permafrost may be released in a slow leak as global warming takes hold, rather than an eruption, according to new research. [see title]
    • Thinking of AI like a bomb makes it seem like something that is deployed in a singular event, albeit one with devastating consequences rather than the slow burn that is consuming jobs and culture.

  2. Alternative form of slow-burn.

The neighborhood

Derived

do a slow burn, on a slow burn

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA