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slackness

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Contextual has undoubted benefits and can take up some of the slack, but it won’t provide a magic bullet.

From Digiday

In the meantime, let’s cut folks some slack and see how this big engine rolls as it kicks into high gear.

From Fortune

“I feel a great disturbance in the slack, as if millions of people tried to log on for the first time in two weeks and were suddenly silenced,” software analyst Steve O’Grady of RedMonk tweeted, referencing a famous line from Star Wars.

From Fortune

When I’m finished petting Qoobo, there’s no protest — the tail simply goes slack.

Gauges of input prices and costs paid by businesses are also perking up as of late, though factories still have plenty of slack in capacity.

From Fortune

For this he had kept his body clean and his soul clean where all about him was sloth and slackness.

The bridle of the throat then is to be held attempered between slackness and stiffness.

Complaints of waste in supply departments and of slackness of discipline among the troops were rife in the early months.

Even Mr. Monk, who was the most earnest of men, felt the general slackness of all around him.

In any case the Emperor was deeply incensed by what he considered Victor's slackness, and degraded him.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slackness, such as: disregard, failure, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention, and inattentiveness.

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

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