underachiever

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Recent Examples of underachiever On the other side, some health-care underachievers like Bristol Myers and Danaher are finally bouncing after their rough couple of months. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 1 July 2025 The film stars Vince Vaughn as Peter La Fleur, a charismatic underachiever and proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe’s, and Ben Stiller as White Goodman, the power-mullet-sporting, Fu-Manchu-d, egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness. Lesley O'Toole, Variety, 10 June 2025 How did this guy turn out to be such an underachiever and such an awkward father? Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 In general, the brand has been somewhat of an underachiever in terms of its revenue contribution to Nike over the years. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for underachiever
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slacker
Noun
  • But use it to identify slackers, not cap the rockstars who didn’t need it anyway.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Beavis and Butt-Head season 3 The iconic ’90s slackers are back.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Underachiever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underachiever. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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