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Noun
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There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Pest Control with Cardboard Slugs and snails are drawn to cool, damp cardboard.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Most striking among them is the eldest son, dressed in a long velvet frock coat and a battered pair of brothel creepers.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2025
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Sperry and Pleasures first linked up in 2023 to update the footwear brand’s Authentic Original 3-Eye boat shoe into a creeper style.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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On great banners overhead, the Jaguars' lank-haired quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, looks on impassively, his vibe somewhere between ’90s skate slacker and chisel-jawed jock.—
Toby Skinner,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 2026
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Our unnamed protagonist, a slacker with a goatee, is no protester.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Getting rid of the Super Bowl stragglers is awkward.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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And the one straggler in that group is Draymond Green.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And once again, Pizza Hut was the laggard of the portfolio.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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So Canada has been, admittedly, a defense laggard for a long time.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Some frontline library staff have said the Rondo Library improvements could make safety concerns worse by moving bathrooms deeper into the structure, without addressing root concerns about fentanyl users, unattended youth and loiterers coming from the nearby Green Line station.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
27 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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The hand crawler takes a different approach.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
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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 19 Feb. 2026.
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