as in leisurely
moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
I hate being stuck behind laggard drivers on the freeway
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as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
tried to spur on the laggards at the back of the line during the hike
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Recent Examples of laggard
Abdul El-Sayed,
The New Republic,
29 Sep. 2022
These are all new cores from ARM, and the big and little cores are 64-bit only, with only the medium cores able to run any laggard 32-bit applications.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2022
Alexa Lomonaco,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
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Manu Khetan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Adjective
Its laggard incubation period gives us a full 21 days to intervene between exposure and disease.
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Abdul El-Sayed,
The New Republic,
29 Sep. 2022
These are all new cores from ARM, and the big and little cores are 64-bit only, with only the medium cores able to run any laggard 32-bit applications.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2022
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On the first day of the new quarter, investors rotated out of many of this year’s biggest winners — including AI infrastructure stocks — and into some of the market’s biggest laggards.
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Alexa Lomonaco,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
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Manu Khetan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laggard
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Mondays have $5 martinis, mules and margaritas, Fridays and Saturdays are for boogying upstairs and the patio at Metro is an any-day spot for a leisurely drink or three.
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That was when the lensman captured the social set at their leisurely and often strikingly dressed best.
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
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What to expect over the weekend Though Friday was expected to be the slowest day of the competition, the atmosphere at Cal Expo was anything but dull.
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Some residents are calling for civilian volunteers to help clear debris, frustrated by the slow pace of the rescue operations.
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The lagging percentage of women film directors last year is a clear sign that the industry is going backward, said Kirsten Schaffer, chief executive of WIF, which advocates for women in Hollywood.
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The United States typically experiences the lagging edge of Latin American displacement waves.
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Many competitors often report feeling sluggish, sleepy, or uncomfortable afterward.
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Merz’s coalition of center-right and center-left parties took office just over a year ago with pledges to reform and turn around Germany’s sluggish economy, Europe’s biggest.
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“Laggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laggard. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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