straggling
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The youngest, the straggling teenaged Låke, was born off the grid and has no identity, legally speaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
Campaigns have normally pushed for it, allowing them to lock in votes early and focus their efforts on Election Day to encourage straggling supporters to get to the polls.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023
"It was really challenging straggling down the rock faces to get to this shoreline and count all the plastic that was there," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022
In New York City, a monument production hub less than a century ago — where now only a few straggling businesses remain, including just two full-service companies — this was not good news.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
All I wanted was to remember those hours forever, remember the sight of the once proud soldiers straggling past us in abject defeat.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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