as in laggard
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Recent Examples of latecomer
No latecomers will be admitted, and all participants must stay for the entire walk, which will end by 10 a.m. Register at eventbrite.com.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
As a bit of a latecomer to the EV market, Scout has the advantage of learning from the mistakes of other companies that made big bets on electrification, only to walk back their EV ambitions amid slower-than-expected sales.
—Joann Muller, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Further, the friction in establishing a payment channel network (a tradeoff to its potential for AI-level scale) is a competitive moat that advantages bitcoin’s Lightning Network against crypto latecomers.
—Alyse Killeen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Some were ejected during the early scenes in the film as latecomers entered.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
As a bit of a latecomer to the EV market, Scout has the advantage of learning from the mistakes of other companies that made big bets on electrification, only to walk back their EV ambitions amid slower-than-expected sales.
—Joann Muller, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Further, the friction in establishing a payment channel network (a tradeoff to its potential for AI-level scale) is a competitive moat that advantages bitcoin’s Lightning Network against crypto latecomers.
—Alyse Killeen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Some were ejected during the early scenes in the film as latecomers entered.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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Pizza Hut, the laggard of Yum’s portfolio, reported same-store sales declines of 1% for the quarter.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
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Leading companies have three times as many full-time employees upskilled on AI over their laggard counterparts.—
Brian Solis,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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In addition to the proliferation of devices, Diamond noted new twists on K-beauty such as vegan alternatives to popular Korean ingredients like snail mucin.—
Faye Brookman,
WWD,
4 Feb. 2025
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Red-eared slider turtles may chow down on earthworms, snails, slugs and leafy greens, according to VCA Animal Hospitals.—
Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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Forty of those quotes were taken from publishers who’d disallowed OpenAI’s search crawler from accessing their site.—
Wes Davis,
The Verge,
3 Dec. 2024
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So far, only OpenAI's crawler has managed to escape.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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