How to Use laggard in a Sentence

laggard

1 of 2 adjective

• I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway.
• Still, the fact that Connecticut and the rest of the laggard states were located in the eastern part of the U.S. wasn’t a coincidence.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2020
• Europe remains the laggard, with tourism flows from abroad still suppressed by a vaccine campaign that is behind that of the U.S.
  — Colleen Barry, Star Tribune, 17 May 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
• The interior styling of laggard properties can be off-putting or set the imagination on fire.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• Despite its laggard status, Bing is a sizable business.
  — Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Both performances are appealing, but Mr. Ashe’s screenplay is not well served by the laggard pace and low energy of his direction.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• Two former administration officials put some of the blame for the laggard White House response on Kushner.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2020
• Moreover, high ambition from a group of major economies can help catalyze additional action from laggard nations.
  — Rachel Cleetus, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The coronavirus pandemic hastened Olympus's laggard camera unit's decline.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 June 2020
• I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway.
• Still, the fact that Connecticut and the rest of the laggard states were located in the eastern part of the U.S. wasn’t a coincidence.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2020
• Europe remains the laggard, with tourism flows from abroad still suppressed by a vaccine campaign that is behind that of the U.S.
  — Colleen Barry, Star Tribune, 17 May 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
• The interior styling of laggard properties can be off-putting or set the imagination on fire.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• Despite its laggard status, Bing is a sizable business.
  — Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Both performances are appealing, but Mr. Ashe’s screenplay is not well served by the laggard pace and low energy of his direction.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• Two former administration officials put some of the blame for the laggard White House response on Kushner.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2020
• Moreover, high ambition from a group of major economies can help catalyze additional action from laggard nations.
  — Rachel Cleetus, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The coronavirus pandemic hastened Olympus's laggard camera unit's decline.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 June 2020

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laggard

2 of 2 noun

• The company has been a laggard in developing new products.
• Transports were the leader and is now the laggard since the week of May 14.
  — Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• AmerisourceBergen, the laggard among the three this year, may come out on top next year.
  — David Wainer, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
• Apple claims the battery on the 11 Pro lasts four hours longer than last year’s laggard iPhone XS.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• How much did the winners contribute to bail out the eight laggards?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• To get down to one laggard, well, that’s huge progress in the club’s 17th year of tracking high-powered women.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• To this point, gold has been the laggard in asset class performance (still down year-to-date).
  — Bryan Rich, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• Its industry has been struggling and the stock has been a laggard.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Among the laggards, Netflix fell 5.9% and Hasbro dropped 1.5%.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 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 major indexes are mixed, with Japan's Nikkei the laggard, down 1.4%.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Tech stocks again were the big laggard on Tuesday with the Nasdaq falling for a second straight day.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
• Even by that standard, though, Castillo Armas was a bit of a laggard.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• The state has been a laggard; only 47% of residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• But in the last decade, the company has gone from an industry leader to a laggard.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• France is next, while Spain and Italy are persistent laggards.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• In the years leading up to the war, Ukraine, long a laggard in greening its power grid, had begun making progress.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• That means selling some of the best-performing assets, buying some of the laggards, or both.
  — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Paramount, for one, has been a laggard in theatrical box-office share -- at 5% year to date, per Boxofficemojo.com.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
• Toyota has been seen as a laggard in fully electric cars.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
• But the stock is still a significant laggard relative to peers and the broader market over the longer term.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, the laggard groups of 2023, such as energy and financials, are leading the gains in June.
  — Michael Msika, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• Over the past decade, Maryland’s public schools have gone in the wrong direction — from a leader to a laggard on the Nation’s Report Card.
  — Clarence C. Crawford, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• Early in the coronavirus crisis, the US was a testing laggard.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 May 2020
• The major Asia indexes are mixed in afternoon trading with the Hang Seng, yesterday's laggard, the best of the bunch, up 0.7%.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• Britain is a laggard in fibre, which allows much higher speeds than copper wires.
  — The Economist, 22 Nov. 2019
• For laggard industry stocks that do not fit the ESG, growth, meme mold to shine since the election is a good sign that the economy’s improvement is broad-based.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• The materials and health care sectors were the only laggards.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The Nikkei, an October laggard, is up 2.6%; Chinese stocks are sinking.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2021

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