as in laggard
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Recent Examples of latecomer
There are too many latecomers who need to be punished.
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Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
In those days, even small neighborhood theaters employed uniformed ushers to guide latecomers to their seats with a flashlight, patrol the aisles, and handle obstreperous customers.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Zoom out: The fracture was familiar to anyone who's seen a movement expand — early adopters criticizing the latecomers for bringing different ideas.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
Should the host have ordered more food for the latecomers, especially since the other parents were eating food meant for the children?
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
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Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
In those days, even small neighborhood theaters employed uniformed ushers to guide latecomers to their seats with a flashlight, patrol the aisles, and handle obstreperous customers.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Zoom out: The fracture was familiar to anyone who's seen a movement expand — early adopters criticizing the latecomers for bringing different ideas.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
Should the host have ordered more food for the latecomers, especially since the other parents were eating food meant for the children?
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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Teams that pushed boundaries more than two decades ago would be considered laggards today.—
Christian Clark,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Yet, without embracing the risk of failure, companies risk becoming laggards in a fast-pacing market.—
Jessica Mendoza,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 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
Noun
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Her motifs—flags, dominoes, seashells, snails, moons, eggs, owls—only heighten the otherworldliness.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Related species are already being studied for pain treatments, so these venomous snails could also hold some medical potential.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The oil will smother active and recently settled crawlers.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Performance still matters, whether for human visitors or AI crawlers.—
Mehdi Daoudi,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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