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
Lucinda Shen, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Rising lung cancer rates in Asian women who don't smoke worry experts
How long can delinquent credit card debt be collected?
—Jackie Fortiér, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Smith was arrested in April on a charge of firearm possession by a felon or delinquent, and posted $7,500 bond on May 22.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
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Those measure could mean dunning a delinquent customer, or tapping into Tola's BNPL, working capital product.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Rising lung cancer rates in Asian women who don't smoke worry experts
How long can delinquent credit card debt be collected?
—Jackie Fortiér, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
Some of them have focused their efforts on specific groups of tax delinquents, including a group of 1,600 households with annual incomes above $1 million who were all known to owe at least $250,000 in back taxes, based on their previous tax returns.
—Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Smith was arrested in April on a charge of firearm possession by a felon or delinquent, and posted $7,500 bond on May 22.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 June 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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Now, even that default 10 year lookback is absent from the aforementioned composite edition, as well as the also tardy prior composite edition covering 2017-19.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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But his perpetually tardy filing led to error: nuances morphed into nuisances.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 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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After all, she's known Jason and Kylie Kelce for nearly a year, having met the couple for the first time at Travis Kelce's playoff game against the Buffalo Bills in late January.Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2024
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Now, watch Brooke Shields style her classic bombshell hair: Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!Annie Blackman, Allure, 23 Nov. 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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All told, Mind Games was long overdue for a reappraisal.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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The same could be said of the wage-hikes, which were long overdue, and more recently action against fentanyl, which is increasingly becoming an issue in Mexico too.Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
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The interplay between pervert audience and chastising host is a delicate dance, as old as time.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Five states and Washington, D.C. have referendums next month that could profoundly change—and pervert—the way each conducts elections.Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Delinquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delinquent. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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