LAGGERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

laggers

noun

plural of lagger

as in snails

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others after 10 hours, there weren't any spectators left to cheer on the laggers as they finished the marathon

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Recent Examples of laggers If enough go to the Democratic laggers rather than the party frontrunners, both Republicans could still wind up one-two. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Holed up in her brutalist home in the Swiss alps with her pet snails, she is approached by a handsome young publisher from New York (Alden Ehrenreich) with the impossible task of convincing her to write another book in her Ripley series.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
The researchers found a population deep in a Japanese mountain valley where left- and right-coiling snails can mate and exchange genes.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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Those factors still matter, but as demand continues to outpace production capacity, another capability will increasingly separate industry leaders from laggards—the ability to execute more production with the same resources.

— Naveen Poonian, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Namely, many of these laggards—including Gemini, Bullish and BitGo—are offering commodity services in a hyper competitive market, and don’t have the ability to scale or provide much in the way of extra value.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

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