latecomer

noun

Definition of latecomernext
as in laggard

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Recent Examples of latecomer At one point in the film, some of the recording sessons have already transpired, and then Emily King shows up as kind of a latecomer, and people are catching her up. — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2026 Amazon is just one company, of course, and a relative latecomer to reporting its data center water usage numbers. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026 There were pockets of space at the back of the room for latecomers to stand, and reporters tried to test him with the sort of incremental questions that even correspondents of inside baseball would balk at. — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026 Chinese companies are relative latecomers to the cutting-edge field of invasive BCIs and have implanted their devices in fewer patients than US rivals. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for latecomer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
  1. laggard
  2. straggler
  3. slowpoke
  4. snail
  5. plodder
  6. lingerer
  7. loiterer
  8. crawler
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.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 1 July 2026
  • By the time the laggards begin, that gap may be categorical rather than incremental.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of laggard
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  • There’s growing evidence, however, that some Tequesta stragglers may have stayed behind, or that some eventually returned from Cuba, joining other indigenous people in Florida.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • Duckett was waiting for the last bus of the day at Port Authority, watching as stragglers headed to the casino and the janitor cleaned up for the night, when the pressure hit a breaking point.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 19 June 2026
Definition of straggler
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  • Sale prices currently start from $579 per person, but there’s limited availability due to the size of the ships, so don’t be a slowpoke!
    — Hannah Chubb, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
  • Instead, the problem is that these slowpokes haven’t been nearly as efficient.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of slowpoke
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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.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 3 July 2026
  • The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
    — Mohsin Kamal, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of snail
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  • Housing market suffers historic reversion to the mean Formerly sizzling metro areas have gone cold, and the unsexy plodders are back in vogue.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • As for any ribbing that his head coach gives him for being an old plodder back, Hammond laughed it off.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Definition of plodder
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  • Nakamura designs for lingerers.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of lingerer
Noun
  • Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of loiterer
Noun
  • The distinction matters because some crawlers serve multiple purposes simultaneously.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 24 June 2026
Definition of crawler

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