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Noun
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This will reduce the number of snails and other pests that overwinter nearby and feed on your plants in spring.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025 -
Sturdy cloches can keep slugs, snails, and many other pests from feeding on veggies, herbs, and flowers.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After spending the morning clearing deadfall, the crew was returning to their vehicles at the pace of the creeper machine, a mini excavator that can plow a new path through difficult terrain.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Given the creeper hit status that Detectorists is gaining internationally, what’s to say this won’t be the next gentle and whimsical scripted show quietly making waves over coming months and years?—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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Nicely played by Keanu Reeves, the character is the embodiment of every slacker screwup who’s going to just stumble through life, knocking over everything and everyone in his path.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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In The Big Lebowski, thugs mistake the titular slacker (Bridges) for the wealthy Jeffrey Lebowski, sending him on a wild investigation with his pal Walter (John Goodman) into a ransom plot involving Lebowski’s young wife (Tara Reid).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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The last Orionid stragglers usually appear sometime in early to mid-November.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Lightly prune the fern to remove dead fronds, long stragglers, and any fronds that are damaged.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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No longer a laggard, Germany last year became the fourth-largest military spender in the world.—
Kathleen Collins,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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The financial reports next week will decide who are the winners and who are the laggards going forward.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Before the installation of protective fencing around its parking lot, as many as 40 loiterers at a time could be seen gathered outside the building at 499 Snelling Ave.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The larvae are voracious and consume many aphids and scale crawlers during this stage of development, MSU said.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
14 Oct. 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 3 Nov. 2025.
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