tardy
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Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Regulators said when they filed the case that his tardy filing allowed him to spend less to buy up Twitter’s shares, saving him more than $150 million on the investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025
The idea is to accommodate slow play after more than a quarter of PGA Tour events were unable to complete a round before darkness because play was tardy.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
“Is this your electronic signature from the tardy log?” she asks me.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Dorinda put another seed in her mouth, and reflected that Zélie's attendance was tardier than usual.
From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Merion pursued, at greater distance still, With tardier coursers, and inferior skill.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
I was living in the daily hope of that remittance from you, which, by the way, seems always tardier in coming in proportion as Ireland grows more prosperous.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
French, like English, which had a yet tardier literary growth, has pursued its course unhasting, unresting, to the present hour.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
TAP Air Portugal is one of the tardiest of airlines.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barely had the tardiest Intelligencer employees got away when the enveloping jaws of the weed closed tight, catching millions of dollars' worth of property within.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
Her throat was bare, and her dusky hair was a shade dishevelled, and in her meditative eyes he caught the flicker of her tardiest dream just as it vanished.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
But Meriones, stout squire of Idomeneus, came in a spear-throw behind famous Menelaos, for tardiest of all were his sleek-coated horses, and slowest he himself to drive a chariot in the race.
From The Iliad by Homer
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