as in delayed
not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time
the bank was annoyed because our check was delinquent
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Recent Examples of delinquent
Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Kevin Fair, who had a lien placed on his Scottsbluff, Neb., home for delinquent property taxes, will have the title to his home returned to him after a private investor who bought the lien resolved a yearslong legal dispute, Fair's appellate law firm said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Sara Merican, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The British series concerns a group of juvenile delinquents (chavs, really) who are accidentally imbued with incredible powers after getting caught in an electrical storm.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
Owners who do not pay their dues become a burden on their fellow association members, who must end up paying the delinquent owner’s share of the expenses while the debtor continues to benefit from the maintenance of their property value resulting from those expenditures.
—Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Kevin Fair, who had a lien placed on his Scottsbluff, Neb., home for delinquent property taxes, will have the title to his home returned to him after a private investor who bought the lien resolved a yearslong legal dispute, Fair's appellate law firm said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
Set in the tumultuous near-future of Indonesia in 2027, The Siege at Thorn High follows Edwin, a young substitute teacher at a school for juvenile delinquents, whose own inner demons complicate his battle for survival once the school turns into a battleground.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The British series concerns a group of juvenile delinquents (chavs, really) who are accidentally imbued with incredible powers after getting caught in an electrical storm.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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However, rumors that the derelict mansion in the video was Jordan’s have since been debunked.Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2024
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Maine’s housing stock skews old, with high rates of derelict and seasonally vacant properties.Donovan Lynch, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024
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Experts come up to your door like a tardy caroling group, come around to offer their vast expertise.Erik Sherman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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In his first public comments since Monday night’s team meeting, in which guard Tyrese Maxey spoke to Embiid about being tardy to team functions, and Tuesday’s reports of that meeting.Tony Jones, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The fight almost bankrupts the town of Shelby, Montana, which borrowed heavily to stage it. 1930 — Helen Wills Moody wins her fourth straight singles title at Wimbledon with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Elizabeth Ryan.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
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The plan is intended to prevent the company from being dissolved, forced into liquidation or formally declared bankrupt.Michelle Toh, CNN, 19 May 2020
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The city’s 3-K program, for three-year-olds, is not yet universal, owing to Mayor Eric Adams’s budget austerity; his latest budget proposal leaves 3-K with a funding gap of a hundred and twelve million dollars.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
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Hollywood’s latest attempt at rebooting Wolf Man certainly doesn’t lack for pedigree, between Blumhouse and writer-director Leigh Whannell, the duo behind 2020’s The Invisible Man, which was a surprise hit in earning north of $144 million globally.Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
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The Setting Sun The death of Queen Elizabeth II marked, in a belated way, the demise of empire.Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
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But a belated, uninspiring improvement is an improvement nonetheless.Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
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On The Challenge: Battle of the Eras, these now-geriatric degenerates will duke it out for the only prize worth fighting for: making their kids proud.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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There’s the medieval brutality: Gómez was a homicidal degenerate who collected torture methods instead of stamps.Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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But even if development is long overdue to him, he was impressed by the plan KSE ultimately presented.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
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Though winning a team title is far from easy, Jade is overdue for a trip to the top of the collegiate podium.Caroline Price, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Delinquent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delinquent. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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