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Noun
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After receiving the snails from local snail farms, the small creatures were placed inside machines where they were sprayed with an acidic solution that caused the snails to excrete their slime.—
Sam Delgado,
Vox,
17 Mar. 2025 -
Columbia plays at a snail’s pace, averaging 68.4 possessions per 40 minutes.—
Michael Waterloo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Unsurprisingly, the creeper that followed her into Grand Central's bathroom did so with the worst intentions.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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The creepers are less than loveable but still clever enough to avoid the skin-burning ovens.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Charismatic slacker Raj and uptight striver Mir aren’t just foils for each other; their mutual love is unmistakable, which gives weight to the looming prospect that the stress of salvaging Baba’s empire could tear them apart.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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When Alyssa's slacker boyfriend steals their rent money, the girls race against the clock to get the funds back to avoid eviction from their dubious landlord, embarking on a series of chaotic escapades across Los Angeles.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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On the other hand, utilities stocks — down 1.61% — were the session’s laggard.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2025
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As with many other areas of management practice, this gulf between leaders and laggards is likely to have significant ramifications for organizations.—
Roger Trapp,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Restaurants and Bars Foodies and pub crawlers will find a wide collection of restaurants and bars in Celestial Park designed to rival the culinary nirvana of Epcot’s World Showcase.—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
19 Mar. 2025
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The crawlers – computer programs, not insects – scour the web to collect data and save web pages.—
Matthew Kaufman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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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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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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