Thesaurus results for STRAGGLE

straggle

verb

as in to stray

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Recent Examples of straggle Then Paixão noticed him straggling behind the others, carrying a much lighter load, and dressed him down again. —

Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023 Cal and San Jose State have both leaned into collectives, but still are straggling behind powerhouse programs in their own conference as well as the SEC and the Big Ten. —

Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2023 As pupils straggled in, the teachers offered a cheery hello or simply ignored them. —

Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023 Or force it to straggle along for 10 years? —

Michael Zakaras, Forbes, 26 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for straggle

Recent Examples of Synonyms for straggle

stray

Verb

The filmmakers make an intentional decision to avoid actually sharing footage of Black deaths and anti-Black police violence on screen to avoid straying into morbid spectacle, which is a commendable ethical choice most non-Black filmmakers might not have made.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.

— Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026