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Noun
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In addition to the proliferation of devices, Diamond noted new twists on K-beauty such as vegan alternatives to popular Korean ingredients like snail mucin.—
Faye Brookman,
WWD,
4 Feb. 2025 -
Red-eared slider turtles may chow down on earthworms, snails, slugs and leafy greens, according to VCA Animal Hospitals.—
Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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Alan is the name of the neighborhood creeper, who seems to be fixated on Becka.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
17 Jan. 2025
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Wear creepers attached to boots to prevent slipping on clear ice. Carry a spud bar to check the ice while walking to new areas.—
Maia Pandey,
Journal Sentinel,
18 Dec. 2024
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Still, Brockman’s no slacker and presents properly when ordered on a mission escorting annoying, wise-cracking civilian defense contractor Josh Weaver (Desmin Borges) on the maintenance of surveillance installations close to the North Korean border.—
Richard Kuipers,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
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Two slackers are short on rent in ‘One of Them Days,’ — now playing in theaters — an L.A. comedy with extra moxie.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Pizza Hut, the laggard of Yum’s portfolio, reported same-store sales declines of 1% for the quarter.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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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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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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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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