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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dragging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that is slow, tedious, or burdensome, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The meeting felt like a dragging process, with no end in sight."
Alternatives: "a slog" or "a drag".
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A dragging episode in April may have played a role.
And who would have gone after a middle-aged mistress with a dragging foot?
If sufficiently large, they can cause backaches and a dragging sensation.
* A dragging telecommunications industry, including thousands of layoffs at Lucent Technologies.
Connolly's love of period detail can have a dragging effect on the narrative, which becomes painfully slow at times.
"Got caught in a dragging chain off the coast of New Jersey on a tuna boat," he grinned.
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Active neovascular cells at the tip of a sprout share two features with real tip-cells: 1) Compared to stalk cells, they have more free boundary which can respond to gradients of VEGF-A, dragging the rest of the sprout up the gradients.
(See: "Citi A Drag On Dow").
Brunch is a drag.
What a drag.
That was a drag.
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