latecomer

noun

Definition of latecomernext
as in laggard

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Recent Examples of latecomer Iheanachor is a former high school hooper and latecomer to football. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026 The theory of probability was a latecomer in the history of math. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026 Critics who had long compared the market to a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors profited from latecomers, basked in schadenfreude. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026 DoorDash was a latecomer to some of the affected markets. — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for latecomer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
  1. laggard
  2. straggler
  3. slowpoke
  4. snail
  5. plodder
  6. lingerer
  7. loiterer
  8. crawler
Noun
  • McKinsey has found that companies leading in customer experience achieve more than twice the revenue growth of customer experience laggards.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The General Electric breakup has created tremendous shareholder value, but GEHC is the laggard of the three entities.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 July 2026
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • On the streets below, vendors are hawking bootleg merchandise as stragglers from the festivities color the sidewalks with blue-and-orange jerseys and hats.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Saldaña, too, was at the party until the final stragglers began to head home.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 30 July 2026
Definition of straggler
Noun
  • Sale prices currently start from $579 per person, but there’s limited availability due to the size of the ships, so don’t be a slowpoke!
    — Hannah Chubb, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
  • Instead, the problem is that these slowpokes haven’t been nearly as efficient.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of slowpoke
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  • Insects belong to the kingdom Animalia, along with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, octopuses, snails, jellyfish, worms, and many other groups.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Chicks, in particular, eat large quantities of high-protein insect larvae, beetles, flies, snails, spiders and ants.
    — Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of snail
Noun
  • Housing market suffers historic reversion to the mean Formerly sizzling metro areas have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • As for any ribbing that his head coach gives him for being an old plodder back, Hammond laughed it off.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Definition of plodder
Noun
  • Nakamura designs for lingerers.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of lingerer
Noun
  • Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of loiterer
Noun
  • There is also a late-summer timeframe when an insecticide can be applied to control the insect in its crawler stage.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The rise of crawlers Search engines of the era confronted the scale problem with software.
    — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of crawler

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