as in delayed
not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time
the bank was annoyed because our check was delinquent
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Recent Examples of delinquent
Eamon Javers, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
Chicago faces a nearly billion-dollar deficit in its 2025 budget and Mayor Brandon Johnson accuses the state of being delinquent on funding for city schools.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
Sara Merican, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The British series concerns a group of juvenile delinquents (chavs, really) who are accidentally imbued with incredible powers after getting caught in an electrical storm.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
So the total number of delinquent taxpayers is likely smaller than the total number of notices that were mailed out.
—Eamon Javers, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
Chicago faces a nearly billion-dollar deficit in its 2025 budget and Mayor Brandon Johnson accuses the state of being delinquent on funding for city schools.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
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Set in the tumultuous near-future of Indonesia in 2027, The Siege at Thorn High follows Edwin, a young substitute teacher at a school for juvenile delinquents, whose own inner demons complicate his battle for survival once the school turns into a battleground.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The British series concerns a group of juvenile delinquents (chavs, really) who are accidentally imbued with incredible powers after getting caught in an electrical storm.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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However, rumors that the derelict mansion in the video was Jordan’s have since been debunked.Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
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Maine’s housing stock skews old, with high rates of derelict and seasonally vacant properties.Donovan Lynch, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
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In his first public comments since Monday night’s team meeting, in which guard Tyrese Maxey spoke to Embiid about being tardy to team functions, and Tuesday’s reports of that meeting.Tony Jones, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The newlywed woman sought advice on Reddit after her wedding day turned into a fiasco thanks to a few tardy family members.Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024
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The fight almost bankrupts the town of Shelby, Montana, which borrowed heavily to stage it. 1930 — Helen Wills Moody wins her fourth straight singles title at Wimbledon with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Elizabeth Ryan.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
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The plan is intended to prevent the company from being dissolved, forced into liquidation or formally declared bankrupt.Michelle Toh, CNN, 19 May 2020
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The Fed’s latest forecast now projects just two rate cuts for next year, down from the four projected in September.Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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Pixar’s latest original feature follows an introverted 11-year-old alien obsessive who is beamed up to outer space for the adventure of a lifetime after being mistaken for the ambassador of Earth.Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Setting Sun The death of Queen Elizabeth II marked, in a belated way, the demise of empire.Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
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But a belated, uninspiring improvement is an improvement nonetheless.Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
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On The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, these now-geriatric degenerates will duke it out for the only prize worth fighting for: making their kids proud.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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There’s the medieval brutality: Gómez was a homicidal degenerate who collected torture methods instead of stamps.Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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The letter sent Tuesday to Nashville Moves Action Fund's treasurer, Nashville attorney Ben Gastel, orders the group to register as a referendum committee and submit the overdue financial disclosure reports.Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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The show was organized in collaboration with Haus der Kunst in Munich, and will travel to Tate St Ives—a moment of recognition long overdue for the artist, who was born in New York and, now in her 80s, is based in London.Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Delinquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delinquent. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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