as in slugs
a lazy person
a tropical resort that is perfect for live wires and lotus-eaters alike
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Noun
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Interplanting marigolds with celery helps repel slugs, snails, and thrips, thereby maintaining crisp celery stalks.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2026 -
Some suggest sprinkling it on the soil around your plants to keep slugs away, but baking soda has the potential of seeping into the soil and damaging roots.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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Vorobyov added that six drones were shot down in the Moscow region, which surrounds but does not include the Russian capital.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
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In Texas, seven people – including two corrections officers – were arrested in early April and charged with engaging in organized crime for their roles in what officials said was a large-scale operation to use drones to smuggle contraband into a prison outside Dallas.—
Taylor Galgano,
CNN Money,
3 May 2026
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The tide pools around Haystack and elsewhere along Cannon Beach are extraordinary, with colorful sea stars, anemones, crabs, snails, coral, sponges, and sea slugs.—
Kara Williams,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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In addition to helping keep snails and slugs from snacking on your plants, Handley says, the eggshells will biodegrade naturally, and providing a small calcium boost to your garden soil.—
Peg Aloi,
The Spruce,
25 Apr. 2026
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And typically, Wegmann added, those units are occupied by productive, working adults, not layabouts or career criminals leeching off the system, as the old narrative goes.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Mar. 2026
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As the story begins, Mary and Boo are neighbors, unemployed millennial layabouts who rarely leave their rooms.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Housing prices and rents are inflated by restrictive zoning laws, union work and pay scale mandates, excessive building codes and environmental requirements, litigation and planning process delays, anti-landlord policies that favor deadbeats and squatters, and the list goes on.—
Adam B. Summers,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Housing prices and rents are inflated by restrictive zoning laws, union work and pay scale mandates, excessive building codes and environmental requirements, litigation and planning process delays, anti-landlord policies that favor deadbeats and squatters, and the list goes on.—
Adam Summers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Lotus-eaters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lotus-eaters. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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