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laggard

noun as in straggler

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After a brief reversal, Amazon.com seems to have returned to its status as a major “Magnificent Seven” laggard, with shares slipping back into negative territory for 2025.

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After a brief reversal, Amazon.com seems to have returned to its status as a major “Magnificent Seven” laggard, with shares slipping back into negative territory for 2025.

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That said, there were still some large technology stocks over-owned relative to their index weightings — mainly market laggards.

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Apple has been branded an AI laggard, and indeed the company has struggled to roll out the AI features it has teased.

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Rather, it reflects investors’ disappointment at losing McMillon, who, in the span of a decade, orchestrated Walmart’s pivot from an industry laggard to a leader in both physical retail and e-commerce.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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