straggler
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities was another straggler in 2025, with shares of the real estate investment trust falling 50%.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
And if he were to one day find a red straggler with the right surface features to indicate a primordial black hole?
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
The maker of the Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models has scored great success with its hybrids and fuel cells, but it has at times been seen as a straggler in electric vehicles.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Yet while the greatest college coach of all time is probably some anonymous straggler at some hidden school with some appalling financial constraints, the greatest college coach of the big time is Saban.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2021
Last of all came a straggler, all skin and bones, hobbling on a twisted foot.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing straggler
The Pearl
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White Bird
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