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"Slowing down the pace has been the most challenging part."

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  1. noun A step made in walking; a stride.
  2. noun A unit of length equal to 30 inches (0.76 meter).
  3. noun The distance spanned by a step or stride, especially:
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  • So our pace was almost leisurely, and by late morning we were within sight of the Eastern Divide Most of New Florida was flat terrain, fresh-water marshes only a couple of feet above what passed for sea-level on Coyote. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • It went smoothly and well, but just once or twice it occurred to her that the pace was a little forced, and the pleasant laugh a shade too frequent. —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
  • Staggering numbers of business bankruptcies and liquidations have happened and the pace is about to accelerate. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • For much of the song's six minutes, the pace is ambling, the sonics light and Sullivant's voice flirts with being an outright Wayne Coyne send-up. —  Prefix
  • "I know how fast I can go over 200m and if I get to that point - and usually you don't in a keirin - I will go when the bike comes off but in that one the pace was a little slower so it enabled me to control the pace a bit more and go when I wanted to go," said Perkins.
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stride ·  speed ·  gait ·  walk ·  step ·  march ·  motion ·  rhythm ·  beat ·  progress ·  stroke ·  trot

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pace:   paces ·  paced ·  pacing
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French pas, from Latin passus, from past participle of pandere, to stretch, spread out; see petə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Latin pāce, ablative of pāx, peace; see pag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pace, paas, pas, from Old French pas, French pas = Spanish paso = Portuguese Italian passo, from Latin passus, a step, pace, literally ‘a stretch,’ sc. of the feet in walking, from pandere, past participle passus, pansus, stretch, be open; cf. patere, be open: see patent. Hence ult. pass, v. and n.
  2. from Middle English pacen, pace, pass: see pace, n., and cf. pass, v. Pace, v., is now used with ref. only to pace, n.
  3. Latin, ablative of pax, peace: see peace.
 

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