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Noun
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The bayous have become a popular breeding ground for intimidating apple snails from South America, which can reach 6 inches in width.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025 -
The snail is two years old and the millipede is only a few months old.—
Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Blue star creeper is an excellent lawn substitute for moist soils and looks great between pavers or as an edging plant.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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Ted slumped on to the sofa, his long legs bent, his feet in brothel creepers, his fingers drumming on the bones of his knees.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But use it to identify slackers, not cap the rockstars who didn’t need it anyway.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Beavis and Butt-Head season 3 The iconic ’90s slackers are back.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nestlé, a category laggard whose share price has been slipping, had already installed a new CEO, Philipp Navratil, an internal hire who previously led the company’s Nespresso business.—
Lila MacLellan,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Paramount+, long dismissed as a laggard, is suddenly back in the fight.—
Jason Wingard,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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Andrew Garfield played the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
1 Sep. 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
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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