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lollygag

verb

ˈlä-lē-ˌgag

variants also lallygag

Definition of lollygag

as in to delay

to move or act slowly accused the government of lollygagging while survivors of the earthquake continued to live in the most wretched conditions

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Recent Examples of lollygag Knueppel didn’t seem to know how to lollygag through a workout, even one of the early-morning shootarounds where NBA players are just waking up. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026

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Some of that January increase reflects workers who secured jobs during the final months of the previous year but delayed their start dates.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pouring billions of dollars into developing a domestic tech ecosystem under his Vision 2030 program, even as some mega-projects are delayed.

— Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of delay

Verb

In fact, agents are better equipped to do this than LLMs, as they can be configured more accurately to crawl certain sites or sources and therefore return more accurate results.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Their mother had crawled, wounded, on the floor before the brothers fired a final, fatal blast.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of crawl

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Planning a trip between friends is like a game of chess, between coordinating schedules, budgets and other logistics that can drag on, no matter how fun the trip sounds.

— Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Any attempt to walk him ended with me dragged across the asphalt behind his drumstick legs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of drag

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Traditionally, there’s this rendering of hell as a dark cave with fire, and there’s the devil with a pitchfork poking everybody with it.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
With the help of Nollet, Anderson’s hair was blown and teased away from her forehead, with tinges of pink poking through.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of poke

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Gvardiol looked jittery early on, rallied a little to break up some dangerous Porto attacks, but then started giving the ball away again and was booked for a needless pull after being caught dawdling in possession.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Don’t dawdle, though, as the air temperature in the room or your warm hand on the glass can transfer their thermal energy to melt the rest of the ice and then begin to raise the temperature of your drink!

— Matthew Koss, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of dawdle

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The setting is contemporary Paris in crisis, when civil unrest, rather amorphously presented apart from increasing numbers of military on the streets, makes evening strolls potentially problematic.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
With a nod from the person at the desk, we were buzzed out and strolled straight onto the tarmac to mount up.

— Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 9 Sep. 2026

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