lazy
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In my perfect version, the yolk breaks over the hot rice and mingles immediately with the lemon zest, becoming a kind of lazy hollandaise.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
During a talk on the subject, she told him it would be lazy and unromantic of him to treat their conversations as another task to be ‘hacked’ with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
This made him angry and he called her rude and lazy, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The 3.6-acre estate features a wading pool and an infinity pool that are connected by a lazy river.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Here's fifteen, and if that lazy son of mine gets a job soon, I'll come back and give you and your pretty bird more."
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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Though some economists worry that a “universal basic income” would make recipients lazier, data from programs around the world suggests the opposite is true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2025
A 2025 Duke University study found that professionals believed that colleagues would consider them lazier and less competent if they used A.I., making them unlikely to disclose its use.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
While each cameo is lazier than the last, it’s a substantial supporting role from Benny Safdie — who, alongside his brother Josh, co-directed Sandler in “Uncut Gems” — that’s most grating.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025
Use her ajvar recipe without adjustment, or opt for my lazier route, and stash containers of lutenitsa in the freezer.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
“I can’t tell who is lazier, Polly or you,” Mother mut-tered as she stalked out of the room.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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“Everybody’s used to seeing grizzlies on TV catching salmon out of the air at the top of some waterfall, but black bears are one of the laziest animals on the planet,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025
While charging a $1 annual fee may discourage the laziest bot-makers, it surely won’t prevent anyone with a real incentive—financial, political, or otherwise—to manipulate the platform for their own personal gain.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2023
Adding co-op is like finishing any dish with chili oil — it’s the laziest way to make the most unimaginatively cooked proteins pretty tasty.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2022
“I’m a kept woman since years, and the laziest person you could ever imagine,” Ms. Catroux said as she flicked at the trademark blond bangs that drift across eyes concealed behind dark-framed glasses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
Paloma, the laziest cat on earth, eyes us suspiciously from her velvet tower but doesn’t lift her head.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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The New York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The two went down the road together, the Paymaster a little wearied with his years and weight or lazied by his own drams, leaning in the least degree upon the shoulder of the boy.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away, some dozing under the trees, some smoking cob-pipes and talking sweethearts and war, some playing games.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Twain, Mark
Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"And see what I've made thee while thou'st been lazying in bed—a real English ship of war."
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
Creagh sprang to his feet from the chair in which he had been lazying.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
"A nice big dog lazying round here would sort of complete it."
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
A light breeze, lazying over the plain, stirred the fronded tufts of the date-palms' thick plantations.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
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