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procrastinate

Definition for procrastinate

verb as in delay, put off doing

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It’s one thing to study and write about later life; it’s quite another to live it and see things I wish I had done differently or, in particular, hadn’t procrastinated about.

“I told you to have this done yesterday. Stop procrastinating and get it done now.”

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No fan of Dyer’s, whose many books have ranged from a bizarre if thrilling immersion in the psyches of American jazz musicians to a volume about procrastinating while trying to write about D.H.

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So Murderbot, instead of proactively going out on these adventures, is procrastinating.

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Ron Delnevo, from the Payments Choice Alliance, said he was disappointed about the "procrastinating approach" of the committee.

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

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