procrastination

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Recent Examples of procrastination Having a place for your essentials (and having every essential in its place) can be the difference between a productive workday and a day of procrastination. Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 24 Sep. 2025 Thriving amid this tumult requires embracing the cycle of struggle and rebirth; redefining your identity around core strengths and not titles, and setting goals that leave no room for procrastination. Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. Gretchen Rubin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 But for me the book was a colossal procrastination of not fully feeling the pain of the Russian invasion. Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 During a meeting with the head of Egyptian intelligence, some of these factions also criticized Hamas’s procrastination on reaching a cease-fire—which may account for Hamas’s immediate approval of the August 18 proposal without amendments. Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for procrastination
Noun
  • Package cannot clear due to customs delay or missing info.
    Kayla Steinberg, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Laurene Allen, an environmental advocate who lives in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where PFNA was one of several forever chemicals discovered in drinking water in 2016, was awaiting the report and is frustrated and enraged by its delay.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This small but mighty cleaner has dual side brushes, multiple cleaning modes, and obstacle-avoidance technology.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Other auto digital features include auto fit-to-screen and automatic obstacle avoidance.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • All of this explains the wild uncertainty business leaders have experienced in recent months.
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The players, according to sources close to the squad, do not know what to expect with regards to Postecoglou’s future — there is a mood of uncertainty.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As of Tuesday, the average waiting time before container handling at Rotterdam was 66 hours, while the wait Antwerp was 51 hours.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Between pints of cider and the echo of centuries-old walls, Prince William showed a monarchy that feels more human — and a monarch-in-waiting intent on keeping it that way.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Procrastination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procrastination. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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