slackness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slackness
Noun
  • The lawsuit seeks damages and brings claims of battery, negligence and false imprisonment.
    Nathan Pilling July 19, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
  • Mitchell said that in civil cases where civil negligence is raised, a lawyer would have to show that someone's carelessness caused harm to another person, such as running a red light and hitting someone.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Without in-home help, and sometimes even with it, family caregivers − frequently mothers − often pick up the slack, switching jobs or leaving their careers behind to care for their kids with special needs.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 19 July 2025
  • So if the spending cap blocked more funding, for example, for social services, federal grants picked up the slack.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Police always investigate a drowning to rule out cases of abuse or extreme neglect, but an absent-minded parent accidentally forgetting to lock the pool gate or door to the backyard was unlikely to land them behind bars, Hoskin said.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025
  • Not only in the United States, where academic medical centers (AMCs) are strained by politics, profit models and bureaucracy—but also in countries like Mexico, where health systems are crumbling under neglect and underfunding.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
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“Slackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slackness. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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