latecomer

noun

Definition of latecomernext
as in laggard

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Recent Examples of latecomer There were pockets of space at the back of the room for latecomers to stand, and reporters tried to test him with the sort of incremental questions that even correspondents of inside baseball would balk at. — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026 Chinese companies are relative latecomers to the cutting-edge field of invasive BCIs and have implanted their devices in fewer patients than US rivals. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 May 2026 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 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
  • Companies in the information technology sector were among the biggest laggards.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
  • With the exception of Apple, Cramer said Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla have become relative laggards as investors gravitated toward newer winners.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • But as Marty Supreme proved last year, debuting after the rest of the competition can also feel a bit like being the lone straggler in a bike race who escapes the cascading crash that takes out everyone else.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Earnings season is winding down, but a few stragglers in the portfolio are still left to report this week.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 16 Aug. 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
Noun
  • There’s another Bourne film moving its way through development at a snail’s pace.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Sometime in the last million or so years, the snail had undergone a whole-genome duplication.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 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
  • Giant sectionals gave space for everyone to sit in the first floor living room, with plenty of floor space for crawlers and new walkers to safely explore.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of crawler

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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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