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Recent Examples of latecomer
Sadie Sink’s Max was a latecomer to the gang, arriving in the show’s second season alongside her stepbrother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) before linking up with the boys and helping Eleven develop in the real world.
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Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
Baker had been a latecomer to the EFL but earned a strong reputation as a talented attacker.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Above 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
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Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
Baker had been a latecomer to the EFL but earned a strong reputation as a talented attacker.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Above 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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While Amazon has recently been pegged as an AI laggard, this view may be overdone.—
R. Scott Raynovich,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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There have been a few gaming laggards, including European publisher Ubisoft (down 44%) and accessory specialist Corsair (down 35%).—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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And the one straggler in that group is Draymond Green.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2026
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Get those ballots filled out, stragglers.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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Wetlands in the area are also home to Everglades snail kites, which hunt for apple snails in freshwater marshes, and other rare species that once inhabited vast wet prairies drained for highways and neighborhoods.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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Some frontline library staff have said the Rondo Library improvements could make safety concerns worse by moving bathrooms deeper into the structure, without addressing root concerns about fentanyl users, unattended youth and loiterers coming from the nearby Green Line station.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
27 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The famous Spiderman meme, where the friendly neighborhood web-crawler points at versions of himself, would also suffice.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2026
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The crawler was last used on Artemis I in 2022, and had to make several trips to the pad and back as teams worked through hardware issues and even the threat of Hurricane Ian.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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