as in laggard
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Recent Examples of latecomer
As the industry evolves, those who embrace these innovations early will secure a competitive advantage, while latecomers may struggle to catch up.
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
No latecomers will be admitted, and all participants must stay for the entire walk, which will end by 10 a.m. Register at eventbrite.com.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
No latecomers will be admitted, and all participants must stay for the entire walk, which will end by 10 a.m. Register at eventbrite.com.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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Bristol Myers Squibb and our other drug stock, Eli Lilly , were the biggest laggards in the portfolio last week, followed by Constellation Brands , which continued to struggle in the wake of an ugly January earnings report .—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
17 Feb. 2025
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Every boom-and-bust cycle of venture sees its share of legends who hang up their spurs, hotshots who set out to compete with their old bosses, as well as a share of laggards who quietly churn out of the most sharp-elbowed shops.—
Alex Konrad,
Forbes,
31 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
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However, if they’re all gone, recolonization is unlikely given snails’ limited ability to travel.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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But these underwater snails were nearly wiped out by fishing and disease, and in the 1990s, regulators closed the commercial abalone fishery.—
Grant Stringer,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Forty of those quotes were taken from publishers who’d disallowed OpenAI’s search crawler from accessing their site.—
Wes Davis,
The Verge,
3 Dec. 2024
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So far, only OpenAI's crawler has managed to escape.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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