slack
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By reputation she is a tough negotiator who cuts commercial tenants little slack for minor violations and refuses to give an inch when negotiating a lease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
His assistant coaches, mostly a group of his former Granada Hills players, have to pick up the slack sometimes with the subsequent practices early in the following week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We do need to cut them a bit of slack because it takes time," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Indeed, he suggests, the Fed can respond to demand shocks with rate cuts “as long as slack is increasing and inflation pressures from wages are easing.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The last stood there watching her, his slack mouth hanging open, before he turned to run too, but in the opposite direction, away from the others.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In another writer’s hands, the soft-handed seat-fillers of his slacker masterpiece “Office Space” would be contemptible.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The prototypical Gen Xer is resilient and cynical, a “latchkey kid” turned disaffected slacker, raised on MTV and limited parental supervision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Our unnamed protagonist, a slacker with a goatee, is no protester.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
That realisation manifests in the lovestruck slacker rock of Dragonfly, and the finger-plucked Neptune Baby, with its refrain, "I'm a boat, and you are the water".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
Instead of feeling like a lazy slacker, he had thought he could hear admiration in the voice of his supervisor.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The UK has the slackest regulation of all EU members; other member states are much more stringent in their approach.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
It was the most abstract and highly changeable concert I’ve seen this group perform, and also the slackest: inspired on one level, frustrating on another.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the weeks before Christmas, when retail sales are usually at their highest, retailers were cutting prices as though it were slackest of seasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is brave, but he is reckless, and the discipline of his troop is of the slackest.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Laura Overdeck on Wednesday sat by her legal team in the light-wood-paneled courtroom in Newark, N.J. wearing a gray-and-white striped jacket, white slacks and chunky blue heels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was a blur of champagne, full sized In-N-Out cheeseburgers, chic ushers wearing Dior uniforms with snug grey sweaters and slacks that pooled perfectly at the leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
The dads were in their after-work best: slacks and a sweater, some sort of brown shoe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
He was dressed in his typical school uniform: khaki slacks, blue blazer, button-down shirt, and tastefully striped tie.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
As time elapsed, Sand’s rate of production never slacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If teammates slacked off in practice after partying late, he’d shoot them extra hard puck passes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Speaking to the press, he said: "I've given my heart and soul. I can't think there'll be too many cricket fans out there who would think I've slacked off for a moment."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023
It's not as if Eigenberg ever slacked off in maintaining his physique; he also plays a main role in "Chicago Fire."
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
When the wind slacked off, 1 could hear the coyotes howling.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
If nothing is on the books, it could look like you’re slacking off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
With her apartment a flood zone and her landlord slacking off on the maintenance, Linda and her daughter are forced to live at a nearby hotel.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
Florida’s experience isn’t an endorsement of slacking at the start of the year, something the Washington Capitals learned from their playoff streak ending.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
“When are you going to stop slacking off?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
I’d always assumed it was yet another perk of being the commander’s kid and that she was just plain lazy and slacking off in classes.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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