as in leisurely
moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
I hate being stuck behind laggard drivers on the freeway
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as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
tried to spur on the laggards at the back of the line during the hike
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Recent Examples of laggard
Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2022
However, the American pandemic response has also been faulted for an at times laggard pace at tracking and analyzing the spread of the virus compared to its counterparts abroad.
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Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2022
Alexa Lomonaco,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
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Manu Khetan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Adjective
These are all new cores from ARM, and the big and little cores are 64-bit only, with only the medium cores able to run any laggard 32-bit applications.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2022
However, the American pandemic response has also been faulted for an at times laggard pace at tracking and analyzing the spread of the virus compared to its counterparts abroad.
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Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2022
Noun
On the first day of the new quarter, investors rotated out of many of this year’s biggest winners — including AI infrastructure stocks — and into some of the market’s biggest laggards.
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Alexa Lomonaco,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
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Manu Khetan,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laggard
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Mondays have $5 martinis, mules and margaritas, Fridays and Saturdays are for boogying upstairs and the patio at Metro is an any-day spot for a leisurely drink or three.
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That was when the lensman captured the social set at their leisurely and often strikingly dressed best.
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
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There was no repeat of the slow start that cost him a spot last season.
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The house old-fashioned can be made with bourbon or gin and is a much slower sip.
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The lagging percentage of women film directors last year is a clear sign that the industry is going backward, said Kirsten Schaffer, chief executive of WIF, which advocates for women in Hollywood.
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The United States typically experiences the lagging edge of Latin American displacement waves.
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Many competitors often report feeling sluggish, sleepy, or uncomfortable afterward.
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Merz’s coalition of center-right and center-left parties took office just over a year ago with pledges to reform and turn around Germany’s sluggish economy, Europe’s biggest.
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“Laggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laggard. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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