as in laggard
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Recent Examples of latecomer
As the industry evolves, those who embrace these innovations early will secure a competitive advantage, while latecomers may struggle to catch up.
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
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As a result, Cognizant slipped from a best-in-class player in organic growth (compound annual growth rate of over 10%, firmly in the top quartile) to an industry laggard.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2025
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As businesses and policymakers navigate this landscape, the decisions made today will determine whether Europe creates a thriving, inclusive AI economy or allows a concerning gap to widen between AI leaders and laggards.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 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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After receiving the snails from local snail farms, the small creatures were placed inside machines where they were sprayed with an acidic solution that caused the snails to excrete their slime.—
Sam Delgado,
Vox,
17 Mar. 2025
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Columbia plays at a snail’s pace, averaging 68.4 possessions per 40 minutes.—
Michael Waterloo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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According to an investigation by NewsGuard, Pravda has systematically infiltrated the data that artificial intelligence models use to generate responses, saturating search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin articles and talking points.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Travel back in time on the internet with the help of archives After entering a URL into the Wayback Machine, a user can see all the times the archive’s crawlers have saved the site and can then choose a timestamp to visit.—
Matthew Kaufman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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