Adjective I hate being stuck behind laggard motorists on the freeway. Noun The company has been a laggard in developing new products. tried to spur on the laggards at the back of the line during the hike
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These are all new cores from ARM, and the big and little cores are 64-bit only, with only the medium cores able to run any laggard 32-bit applications. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022 However, the American pandemic response has also been faulted for an at times laggard pace at tracking and analyzing the spread of the virus compared to its counterparts abroad. Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2022 The sector is currently booming, and massive funding announcements are a common occurrence, a testament to the fact that the laggard construction industry has finally woken up to the need to innovate. Angelica Krystle Donati, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021 Their laggard approach toward data can be attributed to a host of factors. Deepak Mittal, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021 This is not that surprising, when the great value add that product and process innovation can bring to the enormous and laggard construction sector is considered. Angelica Krystle Donati, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 The Kremlin has attributed the mounting contagion and deaths to a laggard vaccination rate.BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021 The interior styling of laggard properties can be off-putting or set the imagination on fire.New York Times, 2 July 2021 But stocks did recover somewhat yesterday, and the laggard Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJI) was able to regain the 34,000 mark when all was said and done. Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 June 2021
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The coal-producing country has long been a climate laggard, and Fortune’s Eamon Barrett points out that the new plan is not exactly robust. Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2021 All sectors were green, with healthcare +4.66%, tech +4.6%, and discretionary +3.72%, while real estate was the laggard at +0.76%. Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 The European Union, meanwhile, has given 202 shots to every 100 citizens, while Japan, once a vaccine laggard, has provided 230 jabs per 100 citizens. Grady Mcgregor, Fortune, 20 July 2022 Multiple veto points in the policymaking process make the U.S. federal government a climate laggard. Nives Dolsak And Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 4 July 2022 The top sub-sectors were lithium and battery-related stocks, while online education was a laggard. Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 17 June 2022 Despite hosting some of the world’s top tech companies, like LG and Samsung, South Korea has been a surprising laggard regarding cybercrime and only launched a National Cybersecurity Strategy under the Moon Jae-in administration in 2018. Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 May 2022 Unfortunately, prior to Covid-19, the industry had been a digital laggard. Ilja Gorelik, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021 The Australian government is considered a laggard on climate action. Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022 See More