as in laggard
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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 -
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
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The film’s ghostly images are at once flattened and alive, hovering in visual purgatory as scenes begin to feel not only like fever dreams, but out-of-body observations of the dreamers themselves.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Soon the dreamers’ voices, their heady dreamscapes and potent emotions, were accompanying my days.—
Mireille Juchau,
The Dial,
4 Feb. 2025
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In April, the company had to temporarily shut down service in Chicago when ne'er-do-wells managed to fraudulently rent and then steal 100 Mercedes-Benz vehicles off the street.—
Aarian Marshall,
WIRED,
19 Dec. 2019
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Oct 10, 2024 Gulf Coast Reporter Chris Gray is Chron's Gulf Coast Reporter, covering tourism and tourists, energy and the environment, overachievers and ne'er-do-wells: compelling stories from across the upper Texas coast, but with a deep focus on Galveston's rich history and culture.—
Chris Gray,
Chron,
10 Oct. 2024
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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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“Neglecter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neglecter. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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