slack
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Other officials saw 9% unemployment as slack that would keep prices down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
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
“Amazing,” he says, giving chef Andrew Gruel a slack thumbs-up.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The princess’s eyes drifted shut and her face went slack.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
“You’re a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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
DB, a slacker pool cleaner with eyes the same cerulean shade as the chlorinated body of water he tends to with an almost religious ecstasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
That night Dr. Marrigan told me that I was too smart to be a slacker faculty kid.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Six of our best men give in rotation two hours a day to it at the time when work and the machines are slackest.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He stopped by the birthday party wearing his work uniform: a white, button-down shirt and black slacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
A styling group stores troves of neutral tone crew and V-neck sweaters, button-down shirts, slacks and extra pairs of the Silver Lining Opticians “Carbon” glasses at an off-site building, current and former employees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
All the adults, including Ms. McMillian, wore work clothes—jackets and slacks and blouses.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
As time elapsed, Sand’s rate of production never slacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Two months ago, when half the vaccine refusers in a Harris poll said they had slacked off on taking precautions, they were asked why.
From Slate ● May 3, 2021
In the visitor’s locker room, Gaines, his face slacked with sweat and his hair matted, closed the door to parents and fans and drew the players around him.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
I’ve heard it repeatedly from experts: The greatest risk of working out alone is bad form, leading to inefficient movement, slacking off and higher chance of injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 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
Some folks can look at you and tell if you’re even thinking about slacking off, they’ll add some work to you faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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