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Noun
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The borosilicate glass vessel features a small snail climbing up the side, and there’s a little glass twig too.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appétit,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Tropical air-breathing snails lined its shores and shelled creatures lay just below the surface.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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Now, the newest theatrical worm entry is the creeper, a worm-like species native to the ice planet of Niflheim in Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho's feature adaptation of Ashton Edward's sci-fi novel Mickey7.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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In an early scene, he is set upon by a shrieking, skittering swarm of creepers—imagine giant, whitish pill bugs with huge mandibles—and expects to be devoured (and resurrected) within seconds.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer Chris Pratt played Andy Dwyer, a dimwitted slacker who ends up working at the Parks and Recreation Department despite being unqualified and uninterested.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Among his co-hosts, Gutfeld seems less superstar than slacker.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2025
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Defensive sectors like consumer staples and health care were laggards as consumers expressed less optimism about the U.S. economy.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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Raising Austin spurs them to grow up, although Scott, with his increasing dependence on alcohol, is clearly the laggard.—
Sheri Linden,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Just request a refresh, and Google says its crawler will go back to the page.—
Ryan Whitwam,
Ars Technica,
26 Feb. 2025
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Giant Spiders: $21.99 Transform your home into a lair of creepy crawlers with oversized spiders and thick spider webs.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
15 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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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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