tardy

She says states accepted tardy mail ballots amid World War I, while seven authorized the practice during the 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025

“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,” a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024

He would be tardy, but if he sprinted, he had a shot at being no more than fifteen minutes late.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was living in the daily hope of that remittance from you, which, by the way, seems always tardier in coming in proportion as Ireland grows more prosperous.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

French, like English, which had a yet tardier literary growth, has pursued its course unhasting, unresting, to the present hour.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Lady Dorinda put another seed in her mouth, and reflected that Zélie's attendance was tardier than usual.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Science accounts for this sensation by supposing that one half of the brain, more agile than another, jumps to its conclusion before its tardier fellow can arrive.

From Audrey Craven by May Sinclair

TAP Air Portugal is one of the tardiest of airlines.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023

The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why is it that we see there both the dawn of civilization and the tardiest development of human progress?

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord

America has been the tardiest among all the industrial nations to undertake this kind of social reform.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter

But Meriones, stout squire of Idomeneus, came in a spear-throw behind famous Menelaos, for tardiest of all were his sleek-coated horses, and slowest he himself to drive a chariot in the race.

From The Iliad by Homer