slack
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Given rising equity supply, though, markets need household demand for U.S. equities to pick up the slack, despite the volatility Chapman identifies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The assumption was that community services would be strong enough to take up the slack.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Small actions can have real consequences, he writes, especially when others have to pick up the slack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Donald helped pick up the slack Monday, and got a rollicking ovation in pregame as the last Rams defender announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The last stood there watching her, his slack mouth hanging open, before he turned to run too, but in the opposite direction, away from the others.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In another writer’s hands, the soft-handed seat-fillers of his slacker masterpiece “Office Space” would be contemptible.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
My backstory was that they lived in New York — he was trying to get in a band, it didn’t really happen for him, he was kind of a slacker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
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
Not a slacker goof-off, but a good goof-off.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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
Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Reissiger had been the slackest of theatre conductors, the slackest of the slack old school.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
Laura Overdeck on Wednesday sat by her legal team in the light-wood-paneled courtroom in Newark, N.J. wearing a gray-and-white striped jacket, white slacks and chunky blue heels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
As an ambitious and miserable Yale philosophy professor, Julia Roberts paces Luca Guadagnino’s pretend-provocative noir “After the Hunt” in a prepster uniform of monogrammed tote bag and immaculate white slacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
She wore white slacks, a white sweater, white shoes and a white visor.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
“No one slacked off at all. Everyone just came in and worked hard. They just played a lot better than us. They were hitting on everything. It wasn’t our year.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
As time elapsed, Sand’s rate of production never slacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If teammates slacked off in practice after partying late, he’d shoot them extra hard puck passes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
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
The stern lines were slacked off, and Telemakhos commanded: “Rig the mast; make sail!”
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
If nothing is on the books, it could look like you’re slacking off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
So when the coach would suggest that I was slacking off, I wouldn’t say much, I’d just get back on the strip and do my best.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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