slack
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Every veteran touring musician knows that the best way to snap the audience to attention is to stop singing during their biggest hit and invite the audience to take up the slack.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Of the economists surveyed, only Holt from Scotiabank said there would be a rate increase by the end of 2026, arguing that slack would be absorbed at a faster-than-expected pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
I am wondering whether the expectation that you pick up your co-workers’ slack is put on you by your colleagues or your manager.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Ivan’s face went slack as they neared the barn.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
“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
Instead of feeling like a lazy slacker, he had thought he could hear admiration in the voice of his supervisor.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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
It was the slackest time of day, and, as the train started at Longshaw, there were very few passengers.
From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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
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
Rudolph Gibbs reentered the kitchen wearing a clean white T-shirt and another pair of slacks and suspenders.
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
They were nearly twice as likely to say they had slacked about avoiding crowds and limiting travel.
From Slate ● May 3, 2021
Martha made sure that none of us slacked off for even a single day.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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
The rain was slacking and we were moving along.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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