STRAGGLERS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

stragglers

noun

plural of straggler

as in snails

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others by three o'clock, only a few stragglers were still making their painful way to the marathon's finish

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Recent Examples of stragglers The daffodils here were almost finished, apart from one little patch of stragglers still flowering on heroically against the odds. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 Swarms or stragglers are most likely to be spotted near the Great Lakes shorelines because the lakes help funnel their routes. — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Riders work in teams to guide the animals, collecting wayward groups and stragglers. — Mary Beaumont, Midwest Living, 25 Aug. 2026 Earnings season is winding down, but a few stragglers in the portfolio are still left to report this week. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2026 On the streets below, vendors are hawking bootleg merchandise as stragglers from the festivities color the sidewalks with blue-and-orange jerseys and hats. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 Saldaña, too, was at the party until the final stragglers began to head home. — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 30 July 2026 Some of us stragglers just needed to watch a bit more of him. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 17 July 2026 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

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snails

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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