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Recent Examples of tardy The district will excuse students who are tardy or absent due to traffic delays. Lori Hawkins, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Jan. 2024 After being tardy answering the client’s bar grievance, Terry refunded the $3,000. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025 Per Charania, Williamson was tardy in arriving late to the team plane prior to a Thursday flight to Philadelphia. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 An 85-year-old couple in Spain was left by the Norwegian Viva after a rainstorm made their excursion tardy. Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tardy
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Adjective
  • Usually, these leisurely times call for a crisp beverage, and summer’s biggest trend calls for just that—plus a few slices of jalapeños.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
  • Rent a tube for a leisurely float from Town Park along the gentler stretches through town.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Still, even if the growth is slower than in some North American leagues, European teams continue to appreciate.
    Justin Teitelbaum, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • The solution to getting those who may be slower to embrace AI isn’t to push them harder, but to coach them and consider their backgrounds.
    Greg Edwards, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the younger Marley is not standing in the shadows of his late father.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • The epilogue takes the form of an obituary for the magazine’s late founder, but also acts as Anderson’s charming ode to the golden age of longform journalism.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Reporting meant hours of conversation in the car; room for asking the same questions over and over; the gradual diminishment of one’s embarrassment about being ignorant or uncertain; a dilatory attitude of quiet listening and watching; the possibility of misunderstandings resolved.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • He can’t be blamed for the agency’s dilatory response to problems at the plant.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 May 2022
Adjective
  • Join 20 others in the comments View Comments And while more than half of the newly delinquent borrowers already had subprime credit scores, 2.4 million others had scores above 620 and saw average negative score changes north of 140 points, New York Fed research showed.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
  • But with tax roll billing, city officials don’t have to cast an awkward vote to place delinquent bills on the county tax roll.
    Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Please accept our belated apology.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Tardy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tardy. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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