How to Use laggard in a Sentence

laggard

1 of 2 adjective
  • I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway.
  • But one laggard turkey, lazier than the others, took flight just ten paces from Brillat-Savarin.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The interior styling of laggard properties can be off-putting or set the imagination on fire.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • Frustrated by a laggard job market, some young people have started to consider entering the trades.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Moreover, high ambition from a group of major economies can help catalyze additional action from laggard nations.
    — Rachel Cleetus, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2021
  • There are laggard sectors, the ones left out of the work-from-home rally of 2020, that are generating decent returns.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • August has been particularly strong for small caps, which are up nearly 10% so far, making investors think that this laggard index may finally come back to life.
    — Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Two former administration officials put some of the blame for the laggard White House response on Kushner.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The coronavirus pandemic hastened Olympus's laggard camera unit's decline.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 June 2020
  • Anticipation of a global economic rebound has the potential to re-energize laggard small-cap and value stocks in foreign markets, largely left out of last year’s stock-market rally that was fueled mostly by large growth stocks and momentum trading.
    — Ari I. Weinberg, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021

laggard

2 of 2 noun
  • The company has been a laggard in developing new products.
  • Long-term laggard Let’s agree that one month is no trend.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
  • On the other hand, the tech sector was the day’s laggard.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Apparel was a laggard for many years.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Kraft Heinz has been a laggard for Berkshire.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Its industry has been struggling and the stock has been a laggard.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • How much did the winners contribute to bail out the eight laggards?
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Popeyes was the laggard of the portfolio again for the quarter.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • Grooming and health care were the two laggards of the portfolio.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Many of those laggards are rallying.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
  • AmerisourceBergen, the laggard among the three this year, may come out on top next year.
    — David Wainer, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The gap between leaders and laggards is growing fast.
    — Kevin Pierce, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Paramount+, long dismissed as a laggard, is suddenly back in the fight.
    — Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • To this point, gold has been the laggard in asset class performance (still down year-to-date).
    — Bryan Rich, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Britain is a laggard in fibre, which allows much higher speeds than copper wires.
    — The Economist, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Transports were the leader and is now the laggard since the week of May 14.
    — Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • Cramer’s buy calls On the other side of the trade are the portfolio’s laggards.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Market leadership can be built in this gap, while laggards are left behind.
    — Greg Orme, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • France is next, while Spain and Italy are persistent laggards.
    — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But the state has been something of a laggard in sports betting, which has been spreading across the country.
    — Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The laggards, meanwhile, are still gasping for oxygen.
    — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But in the last decade, the company has gone from an industry leader to a laggard.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This year’s laggards—small caps, bank stocks and cyclicals—have also jumped recently.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This is incredible progress at a time when there is no place for laggards in the race to decarbonize.
    — María Mendiluce, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Health care, a recent laggard, led the S & P 500.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The – the real – the laggards here are the Europeans.
    — NBC news, 23 Nov. 2025
  • That means selling some of the best-performing assets, buying some of the laggards, or both.
    — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Even by that standard, though, Castillo Armas was a bit of a laggard.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Germany, long a laggard, now plans to double its defense spending within the next five years.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And once again, Pizza Hut was the laggard of the portfolio.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026

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