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Recent Examples of procrastinatorThat’s not to suggest Friedman is a procrastinator.—
Katie Woo,
New York Times,
11 May 2026 So, consider this the procrastinator's ultimate gift guide.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
18 Dec. 2025 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
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.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017