straggler
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities was another straggler in 2025, with shares of the real estate investment trust falling 49%.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
And if he were to one day find a red straggler with the right surface features to indicate a primordial black hole?
From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023
“He threatened he would bring home a straggler one day,” she joked.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2023
He picked up the last straggler, a man running down a road with his cat in a cage.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022
You don't have to watch many wildlife documentaries to know that the herd doesn't accept the lone straggler.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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The Pearl
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White Bird
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