procrastinator

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Recent Examples of procrastinator That's the price of being a procrastinator. Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025 That’s the price of being a procrastinator. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for procrastinator
Noun
  • Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
  • Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • The Tigers are no slouch in the American Conference and have respectable College Football Playoff aspirations.
    Sam Sklar, Mississippi Clarion Ledger, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The defense only gave up 82 rushing yards — and against a mobile quarterback like Kyler Murray, that’s no slouch.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Twiggy appeared at Burberry's spring 2026 show during London Fashion Week in a simple black suit, white collared shirt and black tie, adding black loafers and a pair of black sunglasses.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Moreover, preppy style is trending this season—plaid skirts, loafers, rugby shirts—so headbands offer the perfect finish touch.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
    Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023

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“Procrastinator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/procrastinator. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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