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Recent Examples of latecomerAbove it all, flapping in the wind, there’s the stars and stripes, that latecomer flag to native nations.—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 Qualcomm was viewed as a latecomer to the vehicle control or ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) segment, yet its revenues are almost double those of the early AV control system leader, Mobileye.—Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 While some retail traders may score quick profits, history suggests such episodes of exuberance can quickly unwind, leaving latecomers nursing losses.—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 July 2025 At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived—not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language.—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for latecomer
On the other hand, the tech sector was the day’s laggard.
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Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
Economies that embed decarbonization into their growth models are becoming magnets for investment; laggards are already seeing their cost of capital rise.
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.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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.
The building, erected between 2005 and 2007, has drawn loiterers, break-ins, litter and other signs of vagrancy and neglect since CVS permanently closed the location in April 2022.
Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.
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Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
14 Oct. 2025
Although the crawlers are more common in the western half of the state, they can be found in every county in Tennessee with the possible exception of a few extreme eastern counties.
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