Word: creep
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...first three-eighths of the race, the Crimson punished their opponents heading into the midway point. After failing to achieve separation through 750 meters, Harvard had open established open water through 1,000 and coasted to the nearly nine-second lead, never allowing the Navy boat to creep back into contention...
...Technically, it never went away. Consumer prices creep up a bit every year. But for the past couple of decades the annual rate hike has been falling--to just 1.7% in the past 12 months. Now the rate of increase is rising. It should exceed 2% this year and reach 4% to 6% over the next five years...
Consider that implicit unease at whether those plans hatched for summer are really going to be the right idea, a nagging suspicion that begins to creep in as the days fly by and June becomes less of an abstract concept and more something which happens the week after next. That intensely annoying question of “what are you doing this summer?” becomes the catchall currency in social interactions, as widespread as the holy trilogy of name, hometown and SAT score were during the heady days of Freshman Week. When everyone’s talking about...
...Still those feelings [of losing the national championship] creep up right now because it’s very recent and very real,” she added...
Officeholders, even those who wish to be friendly to home educators, have difficulty understanding that the most they can hope to do is get out of the way. Many home educators would never seek vouchers because we know that the flow of government money is followed by the creep of government regulation. We want government brought back to the local level, where families can influence it, not insulated away in state capitals or Washington...