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Recent Examples of latecomer
As a bit of a latecomer to the EV market, Scout has the advantage of learning from the mistakes of other companies that made big bets on electrification, only to walk back their EV ambitions amid slower-than-expected sales.
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Joann Muller, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Further, the friction in establishing a payment channel network (a tradeoff to its potential for AI-level scale) is a competitive moat that advantages bitcoin’s Lightning Network against crypto latecomers.
—Alyse Killeen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Some were ejected during the early scenes in the film as latecomers entered.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
New York was the extreme latecomer — taking until 2010 to join in.
—Alison Lefkovitz / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Joann Muller, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Further, the friction in establishing a payment channel network (a tradeoff to its potential for AI-level scale) is a competitive moat that advantages bitcoin’s Lightning Network against crypto latecomers.
—Alyse Killeen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Some were ejected during the early scenes in the film as latecomers entered.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
New York was the extreme latecomer — taking until 2010 to join in.
—Alison Lefkovitz / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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Apple was one of the biggest laggards of the group, falling nearly 4% to extend this year’s losses to more than 8%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Leading companies have three times as many full-time employees upskilled on AI over their laggard counterparts.—
Brian Solis,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But the wall’s rough texture is expected to encourage animals like coral, crustaceans and snails to attach to it.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index.—
Elaine Mallon,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
27 Oct. 2024
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Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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