as in lazies
to pretend to be sick or injured in order to avoid doing work
Because of his frequent absences, his boss suspected he was malingering.
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As your car idles, warm air blown from the top of your dashboard will melt the ice on the outside of the windshield.—
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Security camera footage shows a black vehicle park in front of Café Bernardo, a restaurant, and idles for about two minutes.—
Madisen Keavy,
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What fools these non-OpenAI mortals must be.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
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Critical thinking really bums them out.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
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Then Jason and Thor shower together, each lathering the other’s back and bums up with fewer orgasms than an old Herbal Essences commercial.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
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Each has a meltdown worthy of a telenovela, messes with the crime scene and hours later the police are called.—
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Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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In Lost Lambs, the internet sabotages a family in much the same way that Napoleon messes things up for the Bezukhovs in Tolstoy’s War and Peace.—
Gideon Leek,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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Much of the progress toward eliminating sleeping sickness rests on the work of African researchers and patients who took part in the trials, despite difficult conditions.—
Fran Kritz,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2026
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From unspoken racial dynamics, like Sid rejecting Tia in favor of her white friends, to the economic worries that become entwined with her self-image, Sid’s precarious new social position rests on a knife’s edge.—
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Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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That image lingers, but modern legal systems operate with far greater cross-border coordination than in decades past.—
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Tulum has always been a place of ceremony, exchange, and reverence for nature, and that inheritance still lingers in the air.—
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Condé Nast Traveler,
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“Malingers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malingers. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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