procrastinates

present tense third-person singular of procrastinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for procrastinates
Verb
  • These early shifts—less COVID vaccination; fewer options for flu, MMR, and chickenpox vaccines; and, perhaps soon, delays to the hepatitis-B schedule—may seem benign enough.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Too much light in the evening — that extra hour from daylight saving time — delays that surge and the cycle gets out of sync.
    Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But, then again, the market is a forward-looking machine with a motor that never stalls out.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Arisu crawls onto a mound of rubble for momentary relief, and is met with an angry Banda.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Gameplay begins as the player crawls from the wreckage.
    G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If the shutdown drags on for more than a few days, a report on inflation scheduled for mid-October could also be delayed.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In a letter to agencies last week, the budget office instructed them to prepare for possible layoffs if the impasse drags on.
    Nik Popli, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the show, Addison Rae plays one of Gein's victims — Evelyn Hartley, a bright, small-town babysitter whose mysterious disappearance becomes a key thread in the series.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The designer has made the space feel like home down to the finishing touches such as the custom doorbell that plays a message from Beckham.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
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